Missing
Betty McCullough
Betty, approximately 1941
Date and time person was reported missing : 06/21/1941
Missing location (approx) :
Silver Creek Falls, Oregon
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 10 years old
Height / Weight : Unknown
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A man's shirt and her sister's shoes.
Medical conditions : Betty was deaf and mute in 1941 and frequently suffered sudden bouts of illness. Doctors believed she would not live past her late teens.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Betty was last seen at her family's Silver Creek Falls, Oregon on June 21, 1941. She woke up early in the morning before her sisters were awake, dressed, and took a bucket outside to get water from the nearby pump. Betty never returned home and has never been heard from again.
Other individuals had disappeared in the same area before. An adult man, Herbert Brown, disappeared from the vicinity six years prior to Betty's disappearance, and was never found. Photographs and vital statistics for him are unavailable. Early in the 20th century, another person also disappeared from the Silver Creek Falls area.
Betty's family members were migrant workers in 1941, and were picking berries at the time she disappeared. Her case remains unsolved, but it is now longer being investigated by law enforcement due to the passAge at the time of disappearance: of time.
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September 2021 updates and sources
The Salem News
October 12, 2004. August 16, 2006; .
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