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Laurie Jean Depies was past seen leaving River Fox Mall astatine astir 10:00pm connected August 19th, 1992 successful the Town of Menasha, Wisconsin. She has not been seen since.
Laurie is simply a achromatic woman, 5’5”, and 115 pounds. She has brownish hairsbreadth and greenish eyes, but she wore contacts that whitethorn person been brown. Her ears are pierced 3 times and she has a tribal creation signifier tattoo that looks similar a squid connected the extracurricular of her close ankle. She was past wearing a achromatic sleeveless turtleneck, black/white spandex shorts, and achromatic shoes. She besides was wearing aggregate metallic necklaces, bracelets, anklets, and earrings.
She whitethorn besides spell by Loriella oregon Ella.
After leaving the mall, Laurie arrived astatine her boyfriend’s flat analyzable successful the 300 artifact of West Wilson Avenue successful Menasha, Wisconsin betwixt astir 10:15pm and 10:30pm. Her fellow had been waiting successful his flat with his sister and a friend. They heard Laurie’s car propulsion successful the lot, but went looking for her erstwhile she did not get astatine the apartment.
They recovered her car, a grey Volkswagen Rabbit, successful the complex’s parking lot, but nary motion of her. The car was locked and determination was a Styrofoam cupful of soda connected the hood of the car, but nary 1 saw her locomotion distant from the parking batch oregon get into anyone else’s car. Her overnight container and purse were near successful the vehicle.
Authorities judge that she was taken by idiosyncratic that she knew, arsenic it would beryllium uncharacteristic of Laurie to spell with a stranger. There is nary denotation she was forcibly kidnapped, but possibly alternatively near with idiosyncratic she knew and was harmed afterwards.
Many of Depies’ friends, including her boyfriend, took prevarication detector tests and passed arsenic constabulary tried to benignant retired imaginable angles and suspects.
In 2010, Larry DeWayne Hall confessed to kidnapping and sidesplitting Laurie. At this time, helium is presently serving a beingness condemnation for different kidnapping and murder. Larry became a fishy successful Laurie’s lawsuit successful 1995 and is simply a fishy successful galore different murders. Police searched the country wherever helium indicated that helium buried Laurie’s body, but they were incapable to find her oregon immoderate carnal grounds to beryllium his confession.
No arrests person been made successful Laurie’s disappearance and her lawsuit remains unsolved. There person been nary enactment connected her slope accounts oregon Social Security fig since she went missing. Foul play is suspected.
The photograph connected the close is an property progressed photograph of what Laurie mightiness look similar astatine the property of 32 years old.
Laurie's parent is inactive waiting to perceive what happened. In an interrogation with WTAQ successful 2022 she said, “I would conscionable similar to cognize what happened and wherefore it happened conscionable to cognize that she’s astatine peace, due to the fact that you can’t even, you know, person a funeral, oregon a memorial, oregon anything, due to the fact that there’s thing different than her car and a java cup, oregon a soda cupful and nary communicative just, you know, disconnected the look of the earth.”
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Laurie was 20 years aged erstwhile she went missing. She would beryllium 51 years aged today.
Any leads oregon accusation should beryllium directed to:
Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation
Special Agent Kyra Schallhorn
(920) 751-4185
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Additional Sources:
Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Missing & Exploited Children & Adults
MSN: The Unsolved 1992 Disappearance of Laurie Depies
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