According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the disappearance of four-year-old Marjorie West remains "the great unsolved mystery of the missing” and the second oldest unsolved child abduction case recorded in American history. At the time of Marjorie’s 1938 disappearance, the search for her was one of the largest for a child since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping six years earlier spanning months and see more than 3,000 local people search for the missing Marjorie. Was Marjorie lost in the woods, abducted and raised under an assumed named or possibly even kidnapped in a famous baby smuggling ring?

Sources:

Reece, C. (2023, August 6). Still missing 85 years later: the unsolved case of my cousin Marjorie West. Medium. https://piecesofclreece.medium.com/still-missing-85-years-later-the-unsolved-case-of-my-cousin-marjorie-west-c4e10bc819cb

"The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West". Narratively. May 8, 2018. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023.

Sager, Kate Day. "70 years later, missing girl still discussed". Olean Times Herald. Archived from the original on 2023-09-23..

Marjorie West. (n.d.). McKean County Cold Cases. https://mckeancountycoldcases.weebly.com/marjorie-west.html

Reporter, G. S. (2021, September 9). The great unsolved mystery of the missing Marjorie West. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/missing-marjorie-west

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