I took a very long break, as you can see, but Cold Cases and Missing Persons has a special place in my heart, and while I have not been able to write for a long time due to some health setbacks, I am always saving clippings and files.
Last year, I sat down to cobble together my notes on the Wayne County murders and compose my thoughts, but my brain felt exhausted. I have been rehabbing from a foot and shoulder injury and am also on the mend from a heart condition. For various reasons, I have not been able to finish the story. However, I found another very interesting case and while I get my head back together to write another long piece, perhaps you might like to read this very good article about one of New Hampshire’s most famous missing persons case.
I was a teenager in the eighties, and I also recall that this was a time when parents were less guarded about where their teenagers wandered off to at night. Some of the things we did would seem crazy now in this age where teenagers grow up online. This article was so well researched and written that it had me hooked. For example, there is this chilling paragraph:
“After five months with no sign of Tippy, another article ran in the Concord monitor by a different author and the tone was quite different.
“It opened, ‘All the 156 Concord children who were reported to be missing or to have run away between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 [of 1984] have been found – except one.”
https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/shirley-tippy-mcbride
That teenager was Tippy McBride. Shirley Ann McBride led a pretty interesting life for a teenager, the article describes her life with evocative detail. Investigators may or may not have a suspect, but as with many well-publicized cases, I personally do not find the facts aligning, but I will give it a closer look.
The Cold and Missing Persons Case Archivist 