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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 13, 2016 11:02:03 GMT -5
   (Pictured: Above: Left: Dorothy Scofield, circa 1976. Middle: Age-progresstion to 46 years old, circa 2010. Right: Sketch of possible abductor in 1976. Photo Credits: Charley Project)
Missing Child/Person Profile as of March 13th, 2016: (Based on Charley Project, missingkids.com profiles) Missing Since: July 22, 1976 from Ocala, Florida Date Of Birth: January 8, 1964 Age (at time of disappearance): 12 years old Age (as of 3/13/2016): 52 years old Height and Weight (at time of disappearance): 4'11, 90 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Dorothy wore eyeglasses with gold-colored, teardrop-shaped frames at the time of her disappearance. Her upper incisor slightly overlaps her upper front tooth, and she was missing one tooth when she was last seen in 1976. She has freckles across her nose, pierced ears and a mole on her knee. Dorothy's nicknames are Dee and DeeDee (sometimes spelled "Dee-Dee" or "DeDe"). Her middle name my be spelled "Delila" by some agencies. Her hair was styled in two pigtails at the time of her disappearance. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A red short-sleeved body suit with a blue flower design and snaps at the crotch, a button-up shirt tucked inside blue jeans, a brown leather belt with a metal buckle and lime-green high-top Keds sneakers. TIPS: Anyone having information should contact 1-800-THE-LOST or the Ocala Police Department (Florida) - at 1-352-369-7000From The Charley Project: Dorothy and her mother left their Ocala, Florida residence together on July 22, 1976. Her mother took a driving test while Dorothy exchanged a pair of sandals at the J. M. Fields department store. She also planned to buy a birthday present for her brother. Dorothy returned the shoes and was last seen at the mall at approximately 2:00 p.m. that day. Dorothy never met her mother at the designated location they had agreed on and she reported her daughter as missing. Dorothy has never been seen again. A witness reported having seen a girl matching Dorothy's description two hours after she was reported missing. The child was in Nuby's, a convenience store at the intersection of Highway 40 and State Road Highway 314, less than a mile from the Ocala National Forest. with one or two adult males. They purchased sodas and left. The child was shaking and appeared to be very frightened. She and the adult male companion(s) were never identified and law enforcement authorities are not sure if she was in fact Dorothy. Dorothy is the youngest of five children and lived with her family in a mobile home in Citra, Florida in 1976. She was an honor student at Marion Middle School, regularly attended church, and worked at her parents' barbecue. Investigators do not believe she ran away from home, as she was not having any personal problems at the time of her disappearance. There was some speculation at that her disappearance might be linked to the 1975 disappearances of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, but no evidence connecting the cases was discovered. Dorothy's parents divorced in 1981 and her father died ten years later. Her case remains unsolved. Thoughts? Dorothy's disappearance was profiled on the July 28th, 2001 episode of America's Most Wanted. www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/scofield_dorothy.htmlwww.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/601894/1ocalasmostwanted.com/scofield.htm
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 23, 2016 22:18:58 GMT -5
This is one of my long time cases. I read into this because they said her disappearance may be connected to the Lyons case. The passage of time is very sad and also very scary in a way.
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Post by King Of Clubs on Mar 25, 2016 0:25:56 GMT -5
Her resemblance to the Lyons Sisters is jaw-dropping! But I think it is a little too far away to be connected to that case. She seems to have been abducted, but I don't think the alleged sighting was her. Why would someone who has just kidnapped a girl stay in a public place and buy sodas? Weird.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 25, 2016 0:57:07 GMT -5
The Lyons and Scofield were both typical 70s pre-teens that didn't know creeps would snatch them up and as far as Sheila Lyon she wore Glasses as with Scofield. These kidnappers or as I call them, creeps they began mostly during this decade with all these disappearances by creeps abducting them. Those girls were part of the generation where you could go anywhere as a kid and stay out till dark but these creeps wrecked it for them and future generations.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jan 9, 2018 4:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jul 17, 2019 22:50:25 GMT -5
Since The Disappearance of the Fort Worth Trio in Texas, The Lyon Sisters in Maryland, and this case are sometimes speculated to be connected, I do see something in Lloyd Welch’s timeline that was released in 2014 when they named him a “Person of Interest” in the Lyons case and it looks like Welch was in Texas in 1974, and was in Maryland starting in March 1975, however Welch was picked up for questioning in April 1975 in relation to the Lyons case and that’s the last known date of his whereabouts on that timeline until he resurfaces again in April 1977 in Takoma Park, Maryland. Looking at this I saw that in November 1977 he provided an address and in March 1980, Welch was in Florida and I’m starting to wonder where was Welch from April 1975 Until April 1977, that’s good 2 years, there’s nothing on his whereabouts during the course of 1976 in his timeline. Welch was a drifter and likely went to Florida during 1976 in my opinion, however it’s not bad that investigators look into this one too. Keep in mind that 1977 mugshot was in Montgomery County, MD in November and he provided an address in Florida in November of that same year. archives.fbi.gov/archives/baltimore/press-releases/2014/person-of-interest-named-in-kidnapping-of-lyon-sisters-others-victims-sought |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 17, 2019 23:58:49 GMT -5
Very good points/well said.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jul 18, 2019 18:52:50 GMT -5
  I could see a resemblance to the suspect in the Scofield disappearance and Welch, that is considering if Welch was clean shaven and didn’t use a headband like in his 1977 Montgomery County, Maryland Mugshot when he was taken in for burglary. |
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Post by Maddog on Jul 28, 2019 23:34:45 GMT -5
Other than the Nuby’s possible sighting, have there been any solid leads in this case? I’m curious if the cops have developed any solid suspects. I give the Nuby’s sighting a lot of weight. The fact that the child was with two men and seemed “very nervous” just seems off.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 28, 2019 23:47:07 GMT -5
I'm trying to see if I can find anything about possible sightings, all I can find is a Reddit thread where they mainly discuss the convenience store sighting where they debate whether the girl was her because it seemed like a brazen thing to do after abducting her- but like someone else pointed out- there were no Amber Alerts back then and news didn't travel as fast. This is pre-Adam Walsh days where missing children were not handled as well as they could be. www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6y11m3/dorothy_delilah_scofield_disappeared_near_the/ |
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