Found Deceased -Patricia Newsom

Patricia Meleady Newsom was astir 16 years aged erstwhile she vanished from Sullivan County, New York successful oregon astir the summertime of 1973.

I volition beryllium the archetypal to admit that I person immoderate quirks erstwhile it comes to choosing the cases I feature. I’m not going to item them here, but they mostly halfway astir whether I person thing to add. I don’t similar to constitute articles that simply regurgitate the aforesaid accusation that’s easy recovered done different sources. Therefore, I’m not ace apt to diagnostic a disappearance that’s been the taxable of an successful extent podcast – and by successful depth, I mean that it went beyond conscionable repeating what is connected different missing persons sites. However, I recovered myself successful a spot of a conundrum with this case. There was an fantabulous podcast episode, which included an interrogation with 1 of Patricia’s household members. I precocious noticed that it’s gone. Not conscionable Patricia’s episode, but the full podcast. It’s conscionable gone. It inactive shows up successful indexes, but an effort to play immoderate of the episodes generates an error. I don’t cognize what happened to it; it was a bully podcast and a large episode. I’ve decided to ellipse backmost to Patricia’s case, due to the fact that without the podcast, determination is precise small sum of her disappearance.

Patricia was the 2nd oldest of 4 children- five, if you number a half-brother. Her begetter was successful the military, resulting successful the household relocating often. She was calved successful Idaho, but would soon upwind up successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, wherever she would walk astir of her formative years. When Patricia was astir eleven years old, her parent died of colon cancer. Her begetter remarried astir a twelvemonth later, and her fractional member was calved soon after. The family, minus her older brother, John, who had already joined and was surviving connected his own, past moved to Morganville, New Jersey.

Sometime successful precocious August oregon aboriginal September 1972, erstwhile Patricia was fifteen, her siblings callback that she was sent distant to a boarding school. Because the siblings inactive surviving astatine location were precise young, their ain memories are vague and they person been forced to trust connected recollections from their stepmother, though they intelligibly bash not spot her.

They bash not cognize the sanction of the boarding school, but judge it was located successful Sullivan County, New York. When questioned by Patricia’s younger sister, their stepmother recounted a travel to the school, and being told that if she reached Monticello, she couldn’t miss it.

From what her siblings person been told, Patricia ran distant from the schoolhouse with different miss sometime aft July 1973. They whitethorn person traveled to Maine, wherever the different girl’s household lived. Patricia ne'er contacted her household again.

The children’s stepmother has been described arsenic abusive. The younger sister of Patricia was placed successful her custody pursuing the decease of their begetter successful 1980. She was not permitted to notation her parent oregon her missing sister. She besides was prevented from having immoderate interaction with her maternal relatives.

Questions person been raised arsenic to whether Patricia ever went to a boarding schoolhouse astatine all. However, their oldest member recalls receiving 1 missive from Patricia portion she was astatine the school. He states that erstwhile helium wrote back, the missive was returned arsenic undeliverable.

Some relatives believed the boarding schoolhouse whitethorn person really been successful Maine, oregon adjacent perchance Vermont.

I did a small digging done paper archives for immoderate notation of a boarding schoolhouse successful oregon adjacent Monticello, New York. Aside from 1 that was successful Monticello but lone accepted children aged 4-12, I was lone capable to find one. It was located successful the municipality of Liberty, astir 12 miles from Monticello.

This is an employment advertisement that ran successful the insubstantial successful 1975.

From there, I did a Google hunt for the telephone fig listed successful the ad, and was led to an aged publication. Listed successful the appendix conception was a “Franklin Lake School & Franklin Lake Camp, C/O Beaumont School” connected Rt. 52 successful the municipality of Liberty. The telephone fig listed for this schoolhouse matches the fig successful the ad.

A Google hunt of Beaumont schoolhouse brings up a listing connected the Department of Education website, but not overmuch other to person maine that the schoolhouse inactive exists. More notable is this obituary of a Dr. Seymour Burday. It reads, successful part:

In 1964 Dr. Burday and his member Dr. Gerald Burday opened Beaumont Camp for autistic children and behavioral problems successful the Catskill mountains successful New York. In 1969, they opened Beaumont School, a boarding schoolhouse for the aforesaid benignant of children wherever helium was the Administrator for some the schoolhouse and camp.

I haven’t been capable to find overmuch accusation astir this school, unfortunately. Beaumont School ran employment ads successful newspapers passim New York until astatine slightest 1980, truthful it existed during the clip successful question.

If you attended oregon worked astatine this schoolhouse during the aboriginal to mid 1970’s, and person immoderate recollection whether Patricia mightiness person been there, delight sojourn the Facebook group that has been acceptable up by Patricia’s household successful their efforts to find her.

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