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| Siddal, Delores "Dee" 8-23-1961; California 29 years old | |
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| Ell | Apr 18 2007, 09:27 PM Post #1 |
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Heart of Gold
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(AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) Families Wait Hours went into the desert search. The woman's mother in Oregon had a dream in which she saw her daughter "dead' on a desert hillside." As the months passed, the family despaired of ever seeing her alive again. The woman's abandoned car was found at a gas station in a desert hamlet. The gas station owner remembered the woman and recalled seeing her hitchhiking. A year later, a detective magazine ran a story about Mrs. Bradley's mysterious disappearance. The owner of a paper supply firm in Famington, N. M. read the story and telephone the police. Winfred Bradley, using her own name, was working for the man as his bookkeeper. Mrs. Bradley told authorities she remembered nothing about her past except a cur fire and many people she didn't know. The Winifred Bradley missing persons case had a happy ending. Not all do. Mrs. Delores Mae Siddal, then 29, left her Long Beach home on Aug. 23, 1961 and has not been seen alive since. Three years later Hugh M. Pheaster blurted out a confession in court that he had killed Mrs. Siddal and had buried her body in the San Bernardino Mountains near Big Bear City. Pheaster took police to the area he said he had buried the body. The body was never found. Legally, Delores Mae Siddal is still missing. "We close this case in August of this year," explained Detective Wanda Crum, who heads up the Long Beach police missing persons bureau, "this is the seventh year of her disappearance and she can be declared legally dead." Mrs. Fidelia Gonzales, an elderly Mexican-American woman from Lima, N.M., has looked for her daughter, Olympia Rose, since she disappeared in 1949. She traced the daughter to Long Beach in 1965, but despite an extensive search, Olympia Rose, then 41, and who had used many aliases, was never found. A relative said the mother "wanted to see her daughter once again before she died." "A mother will seldom give up the search for her child, no matter how old that person is," detective Crum said. SHE RECALLED one case in which a Long Beach woman refused to give up the search for her missing daughter even though all roads led to heartbreak. The final heartbreak came when she found her daughter — in a pauper's grave in Los Angeles. She had died alone and unknown just 30 miles from Long Beach in the Los Angeles County General Hospital tuberculosis ward. "But just finding her daughter, even though she was dead, was a relief to the woman," the detective said. After months, even years of work trying to locate a missing person, detective Crum said, "you find them and that's the last you ever see of the people involved. A few will write thank you letters, but some don't even bother. Being a missing person is not in itself a crime," she added. "And if we locate a missing person who doesn't want to be found, we just close the case." Source : Press Telegram May 27, 1968 Page 14 |
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Ell Only after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last fish has been caught; Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 23 2008, 04:07 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 23 2011, 01:44 PM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Press-Telegram Thursday, August 8, 1963 PHEASTER AGAIN LEADS HUNT FOR BODY OF VICTIM Police led by a confessed slayer, today resumed the search for the body of the victim of a fatal abortion in rugged San Bernnardino mountain terrain near Big Bear Lake. A search Wednesday, during rain and hail proved fruitless. Today ten experienced members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Mountain Rescue Team were to join in the effort to locate the remains of Delores Mae Siddal, 29. Hugh M. Pheaster, 30, convicted bank robber and abortionist, expressed the belief he could lead the searchers to the body. If the search for the remains fail, Pheaster said he believed he could locate the victim's clothing. Pheaster, who was tried and aquitted for the murder of Mrs. Siddal August 23, 1961, said he tossed the clothing out of his car on the back road from Victorville to Big Bear. The search centered Wednesday in the isolated Gloria Ridge area, 12 miles west from Running Springs and Highways 18 and 30. Long Beach Detective Sergeants Frank Welch and Robert Castillo and Laboratory Technician Ralph Simonds led a seven-car caravan, which included newspapermen, radio and tv reporters on the expedition. Pheaster, who cannot be tried again for the crime, said "remorse and a desire to find the body to help her family" led him to admit the fatal abortion and then to try and locate the body. He said "I was going to tell the authorities after I was sentenced to prison. Then I also thought of writing an anonymous letter to the newspaper or to her family telling them where to find the body." "It is a relief to get this off my conscience." Pheaster told authorities he got $200 for the fatal abortion and had not known Mrs. Siddal, mother of three children, before the crime.' He said he believed Mrs. Siddal died from strangling on food she had eaten shortly before the abortion, despite his warning not to eat for at least eight hours. In Victorville today, Pheaster recalled he stopped there for a cup of coffee when he was taking the woman's body to her lonely grave. While he was in a cafe sheriff's deputies parked their auto beside his, which had the woman's body in the trunk. "I got pretty worried and got out of there as fast as possible," Pheaster said. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 23 2011, 01:44 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Independent February 20, 1962 DEFENDANT ADMITS 3 ILLEGAL OPERATIONS. Murder defendant Hugh M. Pheaster, 28, took the stand in his own defense Monday and admitted performing three abortions. Pheaster, of 5837 Orange Ave., is on trial in the Superior Court of Judge Beach Vasey on charges of three counts of abortion, conspiracy to commit abortion, attempted abortion and murder. The murder charge involves the disappearance last August of Delores Mae Siddal, 29, of 737 Redondo Ave., who allegedly sought an illegal operation from Pheaster. Pheaster testified a bride-to-be paid him $200 to perform an operation "because my fiance didn't want the baby." "A Belmont Shore waitress paid me $175 to help her," Pheaster said. The third operation involved a woman on the 800 block of Redondo Avenue, but Pheaster said he wasn't sure of the address. Pheaster still was on the stand when the trial, now in it's fourth week, recessed for the night. The defense Monday concentrated it's testimony on how blood stains got into Pheaster's apartment. Pheaster said the blood came from the lip of a man he met in a bar. "We went over to my apartment for a drink after the bar closed...he made an indecent proposal and I hit him," Pheaster testified. A defense witness, Dr. Roger Coleman of Long Beach Clinical Laboratory, testified the blood stains couldn't be from the missing woman. The stains are from A-type blood and she was O-type, Dr. Coleman declared. A prosecution witness testified last week that a bloody footprint and a blood-stained matress were found in Pheaster's apartment. In his testimony Monday, defendant pictured himself as a careful abortionist. He always gave his patients sleep pills, antibiotics and after-operation advice, Pheaster testified. If a patient ran into troubles, Pheaster said she was to consult a doctor. He stressed the sanitary precautions he took. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Oct 14 2011, 09:27 AM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Press-Telegram October 20, 1961 TESTIFIES TO 'MOANS' AT TRIAL A woman's moans and use of the name "Dee" were used in Municipal Court today to try to link suspected abortionist ring leader Hugh McCleod Pheaster, 28, to the disappearance of Delores Mae (Dee) Siddal, 29. An upstairs neighbor of Pheaster's in an apartment building at 5837 Orange Ave. became a key witness in his preliminary hearing, first by identifying a photo of Mrs. Siddal as a woman who rang Pheaster's door bell at 3 p.m. August 23. The prosecution witness, Connie Muca, sai "sounds like things were flying around the (Pheaster's) room" awakened her at 12:30 a.m. Aug. 24, and she heard cries and moans. "I heard Pheaster call this girl Dee. He said 'Dee, you have to be quiet'," Mrs. Muca told Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Sutherland. Mrs. Muca said she listened for about 90 minutes. She reported hearing a shower running, then Pheaster saying "Dee" again and a sound like something being drug across the floor. Pheaster and co-defendant Thomas F. Cicarelli, 47, of 1438 1/2 Redondo Ave., are charged with abortion in a count naming Mrs. Siddal as the victim. A third defendant, Conrad N. Couch, 34, of 1617 E. Ocean Blvd., is not involved in the Siddal charge. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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