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Cynthia Louise Putnam

This query posted posted online in 2009 caught our eye when we were searching for missing New England girls.


Hi. I am looking for my aunt Cynthia Louise Putnam who has been missing, to our family, since about 1974. She may be going by a different name but... she was born on March 17, 1957... she was last heard from when she was attending the Weeks School in Vergennes, VT, and she is greatly missed by her family... The picture below was taken when cindy was 14. I hope it rings some bells.


Wondering if Cynthia could possibly be the woman in Allenstown, we reached out to authorities and to her family. We put them in contact with NAMUS so that she could be listed as missing in that database. Not long afterward, I (Ronda) was searching through indexes of the deceased and found these entries: 


It was obvious that little was known about the background of this girl with the same full name as the girl who disappeared from Vermont. I then searched through the Greensboro NC newspapers for mention of this death and located the following articles:




So... the NC authorities had this girl's full name and knew she was born in Massachusetts. ONE phone call to Vital Records would have given them her DOB and parents' names. When they realized that she died just two days past her 17th birthday (if this is indeed the Cynthia from VT) and was living with a 28 year old boyfriend (Stephen Schnair), one would think that the police in NC would have made a couple more phone calls to find her parents. No, they assumed she "had no relatives" and buried her. And for 42 YEARS her family has wondered what happened to her. IF this is indeed the Cynthia from VT, then it certainly paints the Greensboro NC authorities in a very bad light. Shame on them.

I notified Cynthia's family in VT about this development as I knew that their Cynthia was also born in MA. Hopefully the authorities and NAMUS will find a way to confirm (or rule-out) the NC Cynthia as being the VT Cynthia for the sake of the Putnam family.



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  1. I'm no longer seeing Cynthia's profile in namus, but I could be missing it. If it's gone, there's a good chance thatthe confirmed the girl you found as being the same person. :(

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    1. Was her profile public? I've been too busy to see if it was.

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  2. No, she had no profile on any of the sites. I contacted the family after finding a post from a niece looking for her. And Jessica V, thank you for bringing the Wurst case to my attention after noticing it in the FL database. I contacted Mr. Christopher Wurst and several of Doris's relatives and provided them with NAMUS contact info to get Doris and Caren listed. Chris and his son have now provided DNA. I also contacted the FL authorities and gave them the families contact information as they stated that the case had been reviewed over the past three years but without updated family contacts, it had not gone anywhere.

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    1. How could I find updated contact info for the Wurst family?

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  3. Hi
    How would I go about finding updated contact info for the Wurst family?

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  4. Joe, not sure who in the family you are hoping to contact and why. If you have information about Doris and Caren's disappearance, perhaps start with getting in touch with their NamUs contact person Carrie Sutherland at carrie.sutherland@unthsc.edu or 817-202-5931.

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  5. http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/two-decades-later-remains-found-identified-missing-mother-cynthia-louise-n647781

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    1. SEP 14 2016, 12:41 PM ET
      26 Years Later, Remains Identified as Missing Mother Cynthia Louise Day

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    2. Different woman than Cynthia Louise Putnam but glad her family has answers.

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  6. I saw this web site with Cynthia Louise Putnam's name but probably not the same Cynthia..
    Putnam, Cynthia Louise was born on December 21, 1958 in Saugus, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Harold and Gloria Elaine (Kellet) Hashem.
    http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=35376

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  7. Thanks for looking into that but not the same woman, as "Putnam" is the VT girl's maiden name and for the woman in Saugus it's her married name.

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