Post by Scumhunter on Apr 18, 2019 1:04:33 GMT -5
(Above images: Doreen, circa 1990. Photo Credits: Charley Project)
Missing Person Profile as of April 18th, 2019: (Based on Charley Project website profile)
Full Name: Doreen Ann Marfeo
Missing Since: 3/29/1990
Missing From: Johnston, Rhode Island
Date of Birth: 7/07/1955
Age (at time of disappearance): 34 years old
Height and Weight: 5'7, 115 pounds
Medical Conditions: Doreen suffers from severe allergies, which occasionally cause her throat to swell.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Doreen has a pale, freckled complexion. One of her front teeth is capped and she has pierced ears and a large chicken pox scar on the front of one of her calves. Her maiden name is Dobson and she has a strong Massachusetts accent.
TIPS: Anyone having information should call the Johnston Police Department (Rhode Island) at (401)-231-4210
From the Charley Project:
Details of Disappearance
Doreen was last seen in her home on Hartford Avenue in Johnston, Rhode Island on March 29, 1990. She disappeared from there and has never been heard from again. She had a poor relationship with her husband of seven years, Stephen Marfeo, and had quit her purchasing director job at the Rhode Island School of Design to work on their marriage.
On the day of Doreen's disappearance, Stephen took seventy-minute lunch break from work. His lunch breaks were usually only twenty to thirty minutes. He claims he went home, ate lunch with Doreen, and went back to work, and when he returned home at 4:00 p.m. that day she was gone.
Doreen was supposed to call her mother on the day of her disappearance; she did not. Stephen said packed a suitcase with a week's worth of clothes and took $600 from the safe when she left their home. She did not, however, take her 1984 Ford Tempo, her toothbrush, her hair curlers, her two pet cats, or any of the $50,000 in her and Stephen's joint bank accounts. There was no sign of a struggle at the residence.
Stephen did not report Doreen missing for two days. At the time of her disappearance, he suspected she was having an affair and had hired private detectives to follow her. There is no evidence that Doreen was actually being unfaithful, however.
Investigators do not believe Doreen left of her own accord; they think Stephen murdered her. Her family says she was close to them and would never have left without contacting them.
In June 1990, police received two typewritten letters. The first one stated that Stephen had strangled Doreen on the day of her disappearance and dumped her body in a pond in Providence, Rhode Island. The second letter accused Doreen of having affairs with some of her co-workers, men which the letter identified by name.
Both letters were typed on a typewriter from Stephen's mother's house; authorities believe Stephen wrote them, although the letters referred to him in the third person. When the police confronted Stephen about the letters, he hired an attorney and stopped cooperating in the investigation.
Nine years after Doreen's disappearance, in 1999, Stephen told his family members he was going on vacation to straighten out his life. Shortly after he returned, he shot his estranged girlfriend to death and seriously wounded her new boyfriend, then drove to a secluded reservoir in Connecticut and shot himself in the head. He left a suicide note for his mother which referred to his feelings of guilt about Doreen's disappearance but did not say what happened to her.
Stephen was never charged in connection with his wife's disappearance, but investigators believe he was responsible. Doreen's mother, however, describes Stephen as a kind and supportive man; she does not believe he was involved in her daughter's disappearance.
Some agencies state that Doreen disappeared on March 30, 1990.
charleyproject.org/case/doreen-ann-marfeo
Unsolved Wiki page on Doreen's case: unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Doreen_Marfeo
Thoughts? I am placing Doreen's case in the Missing on TV section since, according to Unsolved Wiki, her disappearance was profiled on the November 17th, 1993 episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
Also not to sound morbid but I would say based on the circumstances this is more a find the body to provide closure case as opposed to locate a missing person case.
As far as Stephen Marfeo goes, it is way too coincidental for a guy to have a wife disappear and be presume murdered and have absolutely nothing to do with it and wind up killing his estranged girlfriend nine years after the fact. Crazy coincidences do happen but that is a bit much. He mentions guilt over her in his suicide note so the only scenario I can see is Stephen killing Doreen accidentally or hiring someone to do it for him.
I will say though that I'm not easily fooled but Stephen was pretty convincing in the Unsolved Mysteries segment, offering reward money, openly letting the show into his house etc... In my opinion, there are two types of ways a guilty person acts when they're involved in a missing person case- overly reclusive or overly outgoing.
In overly reclusive- while hiring an attorney might arguably be the right thing to do for anyone involved in a missing person case, the person of interest suspiciously hires one almost at the moment their supposed loved one disappears and refuses to speak or help, join search efforts, help police even with an attorney present etc...
Then there are those who try to overcompensate by going to great lengths to show they care, practically inviting themselves on every show or type of media they can. While it can be argued they are doing everything they can to find their loved ones, the ones who truly care go on TV but you can see the trepidation in them. Or determination but still a sense of nervousness that going all out is something they have to do, not something they want to do. The ones who have guilt involved seem way too overly eager and not reluctant at all to be on TV. I would argue Stephen fits into this latter category.
Hopefully one day against all odds Doreen's case can be solved.
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