Connie Smith

Connie Christine Smith, property 10, disappeared connected July 16, 1952,  from Salisbury, Connecticut.

She was past seen conscionable aft 8:00am, walking distant from YMCA’s Camp Sloane astatine 124 Indian Mountain Road.  She’d been determination for 3 weeks, with different period to go, and was said to beryllium unhappy there.

On the evening anterior to her disappearance, she’d had an altercation with different children astatine the camp.  Her glasses, which she needed to read, had been breached and she had besides fallen and injured her hip.

When she near her structure the adjacent greeting arsenic her structure mates went to breakfast, she said she was going to instrumentality the crystal battalion she’d been utilizing for her hip. When the different children returned, Connie was gone and the crystal battalion was near successful the tent.

The camp’s caretaker, August Epp, stated that helium saw her exit the campground.  He stated that helium did not halt her, arsenic helium didn’t recognize she was 1 of the children from the camp. Due to her height, helium mistook her for a counselor.

From there, Connie is believed to person turned close connected Indian Mountain Road, wherever she was seen by residents Mr. & Mrs. Hobbs Hortman and Mrs. Alice Walsh.  Mrs. Walsh claimed that Connie looked similar she had been crying and had asked for directions to Lakeville.

She was instructed to proceed consecutive up the hill, and crook close connected Route 44.

Connie reportedly stopped astatine different location to treble cheque the directions.  Once she turned onto Route 44, she was seen by motorists passing by, until she reached the intersection of Route 44 and Belgo Rd.  One operator claimed that she had seen Connie with her thumb out, but did not prime her up. That’s wherever she vanished.  Still today, determination are 2 Revolutionary War Era tombstones astatine the spot wherever Connie was past seen.

Construction workers successful the area, arsenic good arsenic carnival workers were considered persons of involvement successful her disappearance, but constabulary were incapable to find what happened to Connie.

After a carnival idiosyncratic made a confession to constabulary that helium and an accomplice had killed Connie and buried her successful Arizona, it was speculated that she could beryllium a lucifer to “Little Miss X“, an unidentified miss who was recovered successful Arizona successful 1958.  A dental examination was attempted, but was inconclusive.  The remains person since been misplaced successful Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff, Arizona.

The confession turned retired to beryllium false, and the carnival idiosyncratic was eliminated arsenic a suspect, but galore inactive judge she could beryllium a lucifer to Little Miss X.

I cognize it has happened, but I americium ever skeptical of imaginable matches to remains that are recovered respective states away, unless determination is immoderate crushed to deliberation the missing idiosyncratic mightiness person traveled there.  I mightiness adhd that I deliberation Little Miss X is much apt Donnis Redman.

Connie had lived overmuch of her beingness connected a ranch successful Wyoming, and seemingly did not mesh good with the metropolis kids astatine camp.  Her parents had precocious divorced, and her parent had taken Connie to the East Coast.  Her parent had visited her astatine campy a fewer days earlier she went missing, and she was blessed astatine that clip and asked to enactment longer. However, radical from the campy stated that they had seen Connie crying aft her parent left, and believed she was feeling homesick.

Connie’s begetter travelled from Wyoming connected galore occasions to hunt for his daughter.  Her father, Peter, was the lad of a erstwhile politician of Wyoming.  Connie’s brother, Nels, continued to question answers until his decease successful 2023.

Camp Sloane inactive exists and is inactive successful the aforesaid determination arsenic it was erstwhile Connie was there.

Sources:

The Charley Project

The Register Citizen