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Martin, Carolyn Sue 8-31-1981 MI; Hazel Park, MI. Oakland County
Topic Started: Feb 7 2010, 03:17 PM (936 Views)
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Name of missing Carolyn Sue Martin AKA: n/a


Sex: F Race: White

Age when missing:24

Date Missing:August 31, 1981


Birth Date:January 19, 1957

Hair Color: Brown Eye Color:Hazel

Height: 5'7" Weight: 115 LBS



Clothes / jewelry last seen wearing: One carrot diamond engagement ring


Location last seen ( Hazel Park, Mi. Oakland County)

Vehicle last seen in if any:Black top, Black bottom, Pontiac Grand Prix


Are Dentals, DNA or Fingerprints available( specify): (DNA provided by twin brother June 2009)


Circumstances:
Missing with 2 1/2 Yr. old Son, Mark Steven Martin


Circumstances as quoted from Carolyns Brother:
ON AUGUST 31, 1981 CAROLYN SUE MARTIN AND HER SON MARK STEVEN MARTIN LEFT WITH HARRY KZIRIAN TO START A NEW LIFE IN TEXAS AS A FAMILY. THREE TO FOUR WEEKS PRIOR TO THIS DATE, HARRY WAS OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR THE FIRST TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF HIS SON, MARK STEVENS LIFE. THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO AUGUST 31, 1981. HARRY SHOWED UP OUT OF THE BLUE AND SAID THAT HE WANTED TO BE A PART OF MARK STEVENS LIFE AND THAT HE WANTED TO MERRY CAROLYN SUE. HE HAD GONE OUT WITH HER FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND HAD GIVEN HER A RING AND SAID THAT HE WAS STARTING A NEW JOB IN TEXAS AND ASKED IF HER AND MARK WOULD GO WITH HIM. I HAD TAKEN THE RING OVER THE A JEWELER IN THE OAKLAND MALL AND HAD HAD IT APPRAISED. I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A CUBIC ZURCONION. WHEN I TOLD SUE SHE SAID THAT SHE DIDN’T CARE BECAUSE SHE WANTED A BETTER LIFE FOR HER SON AS SHE HAD BEEN RECEIVING STATE ASSISTANCE FOR MARK UP UNTIL THIS POINT. HE HAD SUE GO WITH HIM TO SIGN OFF ON CHILD SUPPORT AND A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER THEY WERE GONE. THERE WAS A PLAN AS TO HOW WE WERE ALL GOING TO FOLLOW EACH OTHER. I WAS MOVING TO OKLAHOMA TO FINE WORK AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW ME OUT AND STAY OVER FO A DAY AND THEN CONTINUE ON TO TEXAS AND ONCE THEY WERE SETTLED IN THEY WERE GOING TO CALL AND HAVE ME COME DOWN FOR A VISIT. THE DAY THAT WE WERE LEAVING WE LOADED UP HARRY’S 1997 GRAND PRIX WHICH WE FOUND OUT LATER WAS’NT EVEN HIS CAR, ONLY TO NOTICE THAT HE HAD PACKED VERY LITTLE. THE ONLY THINGS HE HAD IN HIS CAR WAS A THIN GARMET BAG THAT WAS HANGING ON A HOOK BEHIND THE DRIVERS SEAT AND A SMALL TELEVISION THAT WAS STORED IN THE TRUNK OF THE CAR. MY SISTER COLLEEN QUESTIONED SUE AS TO WHY HE DIDN’T PACK ANYTHING FOR THE MOVE. SUE RESPONDED “HE SAID THAT WE WERE JUST GOING TO BUY EVERYTHING NEW WHEN WE GET THERE. SUE WAS ALSO INSTRUCTED BY HARRY TO PACK LIGHT AS HE WOULD BUY THEM EVERYTHING NEW WHEN THE GET TO TEXAS. WHAT SUE HAD PACKED WAS MOSTLEY CLOTHING AND SOME TOYS FOR MARK TO PLAY WITH. EVERYTHING WAS PACKED IN PLASTIC GARBAGE BAGS AND THEY DOUBLED AS A MAKE SHIFT BED FOR MARK STEVEN IN THE BACK SEAT. HARRY WAS TO HAVE BROUGHT THE C.B. RADIOS AND HE WAS GOING TO INSTALL THEM AT THE HOUSE BEFORE WE WERE TO LEAVE. HE SAID THAT HE STILL HAD TO PICK THEM UP AND THAT THEY WOULD MEET ME AT OUR MOTHERS “FRANCES MORROW” AND THAT HE WOULD INSTALL THEM THERE. WE AGREED TO MEET IN 30 MINUTES AND WE LEFT THE MADISON HEIGHTS HOME WERE CAROLYN SUE, MARK STEVEN AND I HAD RESIDED. I HAD STOPPED BY MY SISTER IN-LAW TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO HER AND MY NEICES AND LEFT THEN HEADED OVER TO THE TASSONE FAMILIES HOUSE TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO MY LIFE LONG FRIENDS. I THEN LEFT THERE AND WENT TO MY MOTHERS HOUSE. I PULLED AROUND THE CORNER AND DID NOT SEE HARRY’S CAR, SO I PARKED AND WENT INSIDE. I ASKED WHERE HARRY, MARK, AND SUE WERE AND MY MOTHER SAID “OH THEY WERE HERE AND GONE. I ASKED WHAT DO YOU MEAN. THEY LEFT? SHE SAID YES, ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO. SHE SAID THAT HARYY CHANGED TH PLANS AND THAT THEY WOULD BE TAKING I-75 TO GET TO TEXAS FASTER. I TOLD MY MOTHER THAT WASN’T THE PLAN. I BEGAN TO FEEL VERY UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THE WHOLE SITUATION NOW. I CONTINUED ON TO MY DESTINATION AND WAITED TO HEAR FROM HER. BUT THE CALL NEVER CAME. COLLEEN ALTHOUGH HAD RUN INTO HARRY A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER AND ASKED WHERE SUE AND MARK WERE. HARRY SAID THAT THEY MADE IT AS FAR AS TOLEDO, OH AND THAT HE LET BOTH SUE AND MARK OUT OF THE CAR. HE ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE GAVE SUE $4000.00 IN CASH. COLLEEN THEN MADE CONTACT AND TOLD ME THAT SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT, SO I STARTED MAKING CALLS TO THE BODY SHOP THAT HE SUPPOSIBLY HAD A JOB AT. WHEN I COULDN’T GET AHOLD OF ANYONE, I JUMPED IN MY CAR AND DROVE DOWN TO0 SANANTONIO TEXAS TO TALK TO SOMEONE IN PERSON. I DID SPEAK TO A MAN THERE WHO INFORMED ME THAT HARRY NEVER SHOWED UP THERE AND ASKED WHY I WAS INQUIRING ABOUT HIM. I THEN TOL HIM THAT MY SISTER AND HER SON WERE WITH HIM WHEN THEY WERE HEADING DOWN AND THAT THE ARE MISSING. HE THEN ASKED MY WHY MY SISTER WAS WITH HARRY AND THAT HE IS NOTHING BUT A CROOK. I THANKED HIM FOR HIS TIME AND RACED BACK TO OLAHOMA TO FILE A MISSING PERSONS REPORT OVER THE TELEPHONE. I WAS INFORMED BY THE MADISON HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMET THAT I COULD NOT CALL IN THE MISSING PERSONS BUT THAT I HAD TO COME INTO THE POLICE STAION IN PERSON. SO I DID JUST THAT. I IMMIEDIATLY LEFT FOR MICHIGAN IN THE LATER PART OF NOVENBER. WHEN I ARRIVED I HAD GONE INTO THE MADISON HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT TO FILE THE COMPLAINT. I WAS THEN TOLD THAT THEY COULDN’T MAKE THE REPORT BECAUSE SHE AND MARK HAD GOTTEN IN THE CAR ON THEIR OWN FREE WILL AND THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST DON’T WANT TO BE FOUND. THIS NEWS WAS VERY DISTURBING TO HEAR. BUT WE NEVER GAVE UP. WE CONTINUED BOTH MY SISTER COLLEEN AND MYSELF TO INSIST THAT THE MADISON HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT TAKE THE COMPLAINT. FINNALY IN MARCH OF 1982 WE WERE CALLED INTO THE MADISON HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WERE INFORMED THAT HARRY WAS ASKED TO COME IN FOR QUESTIONING AND THAT THEY SUSPECT FOUL PLAY BUT THAT THERE WASN’T ANYTHING THAT THEY COULD DO BECAUSE HE HAD SHOWN UP TO THE STATION WITH AN ATTORNY AND HAD GIVEN VERY LITTLE INFORMATION. HE DID HOWEVER SAY THAT AFTER HE DROPPED SUE AND MARK OFF IN TOLEDO, OH.THAT SHE GRABBED HER SUITCASE AND MARK AND THEN HE HAD CONTINUED ON WITH HIS TRIP UNTIL THE TI-ROD ON HIS CAR BROKE SO HE TURNED AROUND AND DROVE BACK HOME. ON HIS WAY HOME HE SAID THAT HE STOPPED OFF AT THE SALVATION ARMY DROP BOX ON FORD ROAD AND DISCARDED EVERYTHING THAT SUE HAD LEFT IN THE CAR. MY QUESTION TO THIS MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN AND WOULD STILL BE TODAY. 1. HOW COULD YOU JUST LEAVE YOUR CHILD AND FIEANCE ON THE STREET AT NIGHT AND JUST DRIVE OFF AS THOUGHT THEY DIDN’T MATTER AFTER YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED TO BE IN YOUR CHILDS LIFE AS WELL AS ASKING SUE TO BE YOUR WIFE? 2. YOU JUST LEFT HER MOTHERS HOUSE, WHY NOT JUST TAKE HER BELONGINGS THERE INSTEAD OF DUMPING HER THINGS IN A DROP BOX? 3. WHY DID YOU NOT INFORM THE FAMILY THAT SUE AND MARK GOT OUT OF THE CAR IN TOLEDO SO THAT A FAMILY MEMBER COULD GO DOWN AND GET THEM?
MADISON HEIGHTS DETECTIVE KERRY WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CASE IN 1982 SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THEY BELIEVE THAT FOUL PLAY IS EVEDENT THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THAT THEY COULD DO EXCEPT KEEP AN EYE ON HIM.
THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. SO WE STARTED OUR OWN SNOOPING AROUND. SOMETHING WAS JUST NOT RIGHT. SO WE FOUND OUT WHERE HE LIVED AND STARTED STAKING OUT THE HOUSE. WE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND A OLDER WOMAN ANSWERED THE DOOR. SHE SPOKE ENGLISH WHEN SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND QUICKLEY SAID THE SHE DIDN’T SPEAK ENGLISH WHEN SHE WAS INFORMED THAT HARRY HAD A CHILD WITH OUR SISTER AND THEY ARE NOW MISSING AND WERE LAST SEEN WITH HIM. SO WE SAT AND WAITED OUTSIDE AND UP THE STREET A LITTLE FROM THE HOUSE WAITING FOR HARRY TO RETURN HOME. WHEN HE DID FINALLY SHOW HE SPOTTED US AN SPED AWAY. WE TRIED TO FOLLOW BUT WERE UNABLE TO KEEP UP. WE WERE THEN CONTACTED BY THE MADISON HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TOLD THAT ANY FUTHER ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HARRY OR HIS FAMILY WOULD RESULT IN OUR ARREST FOR BREAKING THE PPO THAT HE HAD TAKEN OUT ON OUR FAMILY.
ALTHOUGH MANY DOORS WERE CLOSED IN OUR FACES AS WELL AS HAVING LIMITED RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US WE CONTINUED OVER THE YEARS FOLLOWING EMPTY LEADS AND A UN-DYING HOPE
THE COMPUTER CAME ON TO THE SCENE AND THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY WAS NOW AVAILABLE AND SO THE FAMILY WOULD RUN BOTH CAROLYN SUE AND MARK STEVEN NAMES WITH HOPE THAT ONE DAY IT WOULD LEAD TO OUR LONG SISTER AND HER SON OUR NEPHEW. MANY CAROLYN SUE’S AND MARK STEVEN’S RESPONDED OVER THE YEARS WITH THEIR WISH THAT WE FIND OUR FAMILY MEMBERS.
THEN ONE DAY NEARLY SEVEN MONTHS AGO A NEWS STORY WAS AIRED ASKING FOR ANY HELP THE PUBLIC COULD GIVE TO GIVE A NAME TO A JANE DOE WHO HAD BEEN DISCOVERED ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT CAROLYN SUE DISAPPEARED. THEY SHOWED THE RECREATED MODEL THAT TROOPER SARA CREBS OF THE MICHIGAN STATE POLICE FORENSIC ARTIST HAD PUT TOGETHER AND I SAID OH MY GOD. IT’S SUE. I THEN CONTACTED THE MONROE STATE POLICE AND SAID THAT I BELIEVE THAT THE WOMAN THAT YOU JUST AIRED ON THE NEWS COULD BE MY TWIN SISTER AND THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT MY DNA. WE MET WITH TROOPER SARA CREBS AND SUBMITTED OUR DNA’S WE THEN WAITED SEVEN LONG MONTHS FOR THE RESULTS SO THAT WE CAN BRING OUR FAMILY MEMBER HOME AND PUT SOME CLOSER TO THIS TWENTY SEVEN YEAR COLD CASE.
THE RESULTS HOWEVER CAME BACK THAT JANE DOE WAS NOT CAROLYN SUE WHICH THREW US ALL INTO A VERY CONFUSSING STATE OF MIND. THERE WERE JUST TOO MANY SIMALARITIES THAT SAID IT WAS CAROLYN SUE.
THE FAMILY IS GOING TO PURSUE AND INQURE AS TO REDONING THE DNA FOR THE VERY FACT THAT IT HAD TAKEN SEVEN MONTHS FOR THE RESULTS TO RETURN. ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED. THEY MAY HAVE BEEN MIXED UP. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.




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Two families keep search alive for missing daughters
Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News
Madison Heights -- Timothy Martin was watching television last March when he was rocked by an image that flashed on the screen.

It was a 3-D facial reconstruction of a Jane Doe who washed up March 31, 1982, near the Monroe Power Plant on the Lake Erie shoreline. Authorities had just exhumed the body from a Monroe County cemetery, hoping DNA could link her to Kim Larrow, a Canton Township teen who went missing in the summer of 1981.

Tests were pending, but Martin was sure the woman was his twin sister, Carolyn Sue Martin, of Madison Heights, who disappeared with her 2 ½ -year-old son, Mark, seven months before the body washed ashore.

"I called the police right then," the Redford Township resident recalled. "I said, 'It's my sister.' "

Martin's odds had been good: The age, weight and features all lined up, and both women even had a chip in the same tooth. DNA testing, however, showed neither family was related to the Jane Doe, and the body was returned to its tomb.

The scenario failed to bring closure, but the investigators and relatives tied to these mysteries say they aren't planning to let the cases turn cold again.

"This was the spark that started it again. We want closure, whether she's alive or she's dead," said Martin, 53. "There's not an end to this until we are ended."

Carolyn Martin's family and friends gathered the afternoon of Aug. 31, 1981, to help her pack for an abrupt move to San Antonio. Her fiance, Hamparsoum "Harry" Kirezian, wanted to relocate there for a job at an auto shop.

She was looking forward to a new start with Kirezian -- the two had recently gotten engaged after years of acrimony stemming from Kirezian's refusal to take care of his son, Mark.

Their relationship took a turn for the better that summer. By all accounts, Kirezian appeared to have a change of heart in June, after Macomb County Circuit Court ordered him to pay $30 per week in child support. He and Carolyn reconciled and were looking forward to a new life together.

It was to be a new start for Timothy, too. He was heading to Oklahoma to find work, and he and his sister planned to caravan together.

Carolyn stopped at her mother's Hazel Park home with Mark that evening to say goodbye. She said "plans had changed" and she was going to take a different route to Texas and wouldn't be traveling with Timothy.

That was the last time the family saw her or Mark.

Madison Heights Police started looking into the case the following spring, after the family filed missing person reports.

Kirezian told investigators that Carolyn got out of the car with Mark near Toledo, according to reports obtained by The Detroit News. He told police she had changed her mind and didn't want to go to Texas. He gave her $4,000 and she gave him permission to discard her belongings.

Kirezian told police he had planned to continue to Texas on his own, but turned around when he had car trouble. He told investigators he returned to Michigan shortly after and had not "seen or heard from (Carolyn and Mark) since." Kirezian, who has since changed his name twice, declined a polygraph test.

Records show there wasn't any new information when investigators discussed the case with Martin's family several times between 1985 and 1990.

Madison Heights Police Lt. Robert Anderson said investigators suspect foul play. Kirezian, who is now known as Harry Kzirian, is considered a "person of interest" because he was the last person seen with Carolyn and Mark, Anderson said.

When contacted by The Detroit News, the man police say was formerly known as Kirezian said he did not know the pair.

Over the years, the family conducted its own investigation, which failed to yield any clues.

They visited Kirezian at his home, but he got a court order to keep them away. Hypnosis and psychics didn't help. And alleged sightings of Carolyn -- in a Highland Park bar and a Kentucky grocery story, near where the family previously lived and had friends -- couldn't be verified.

Madison Heights Police hope they will have better luck.

"The unidentified Jane Doe has brought new light to this case in which we will actively investigate," said Anderson, adding that the case has been assigned to a new detective. "Public attention may bring a tip."

The ordeal led to an extensive State Police review of the Martin case, which will soon be featured on the "America's Most Wanted" Web site. Mark has been registered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the family is going public with the story of the Madison Heights mother and her toddler for the first time.

'She's not forgotten'
The possibility of a DNA match to Jane Doe last spring was the closest the family came to a possible break in the 28-year-old Larrow case.

The cases emerged within eight months of each other, and police said both women had a similar build, height and hairstyle. The body was also found in Monroe County, where Larrow had ties.

The 15-year-old vanished June 8, 1981. She had just moved from her father's home in Monroe County to stay with her mother in Canton Township. Police say she was last seen visiting a friend at Stroh's Ice Cream Parlor on Sheldon Road.

She failed to show that evening at Haggerty Field in Hines Park, where she was supposed to meet friends.

The case made headlines a couple of years ago after a cousin, Robert Cooper, worked to re-energize the investigation.

Cooper, a former Toledo Police officer, was disheartened when the DNA didn't link the Jane Doe to Larrow. But he believes he's made progress; Internet searches yield more than a dozen missing persons sites with Larrow's information, and her DNA has been logged in the national database that's cross-referenced with unidentified remains.

"I feel like she's not forgotten. That's the biggest victory," Cooper said. "Nobody was looking for her. That changed. That was what I had control of -- I didn't have control of the result."

Death ruled a homicide
Monroe County Sheriff's officials and Michigan State Police are urging people to come forward with any information they may have on Jane Doe, whose death was ruled a homicide.

She was between 20 and 30 and had dark brown hair. She was found wearing a plaid shirt and a had cord around her neck.

Jane Doe was first buried in April 1982, about a month after her description, fingerprints and dental records failed to produce her identity. Police say autopsy photos and the woman's well-preserved features and hairstyle gave them a lot to work with for the reconstruction.

They remain hopeful.

"We got a lot of tips, but all the people have been excluded or didn't meet the time frame except Martin," said Michigan State Police Trooper Sarah Krebs, who did the facial reconstruction. "We'd love another chance."

In the meantime, Martin's family said they will seek to have DNA retested.

Timothy Martin said his family is thankful for Cooper's persistence, and hopes everyone involved will eventually find answers.

"We are asking all angels to join in our quest to find and bring our loved ones home, as well as continuing the efforts to find the family of Jane Doe," he said.

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From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100216/METRO0...s#ixzz0fkPv20m0
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by Ray Kisonas , last modified February 17. 2010 11:01AM

It was believed the identity of the person whose body was exhumed from a Monroe County grave was a Madison Heights woman reportedly last seen along I-75 near the state line almost three decades ago.

But it's not her.

Police said Carolyn Martin fit the description of the Jane Doe in the grave, whose body washed ashore near the Monroe Power Plant in 1982. The timeframe and location were similar and both had chips in the same tooth.

But the DNA did not match. Michigan State Police Trooper Sarah Krebs, a forensic artist based in Detroit, created a facial reconstruction of Jane Doe using the skull retrieved from the grave.

"Physically, they look so much alike," Trooper Krebs said Tuesday. "It's mind-boggling that it's not her."

DNA was retrieved from the remains of the unidentified murder victim whose body was exhumed from Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle, in March. Test results were released recently and they did not match anyone in the system at the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas.

"It's still Jane Doe," said Detective Sgt. Heath Velliquette of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. "We're back to square one."

The exhumation occurred when family members of Kim Larrow, a Dundee teen missing for many years, asked that her case be reopened. But the body in the grave was not Kim's. Police determined that Jane Doe was older and the facial reconstruction revealed they didn't look like each other.

Kim was 15 years old when she disappeared in June, 1981, in Canton where she lived after moving from her father's home in Dundee. She made plans with a friend to meet at Hines Park but Kim never showed and was never seen again.

Nine months after she disappeared, a body washed ashore in Monroe. The partially nude victim was strangled to death but officials never identified her. Last March, police exhumed the body and later circulated a photo of the reconstructed face. They received a tip that it might be Ms. Martin, who disappeared with her toddler son after they were let out of a vehicle along I-75 near Ohio.

Trooper Krebs said Ms. Martin and her boyfriend were involved in a paternity suit regarding their young son. She said they reportedly reconciled and decided to move to Texas where the boyfriend was supposed to have a job waiting for him.

On the way south on I-75, Ms. Martin reportedly changed her mind and did not want to leave Michigan. Trooper Krebs said her boyfriend allegedly gave her $4,000 and dropped her and her son off along I-75 in Monroe County. Mother and son were never seen again.

Seven months after that incident, Jane Doe washed ashore. But now DNA has determined it wasn't Ms. Martin either.

"Everything lined up," Trooper Krebs said. "We thought it was going to be her. But it wasn't."

Although the woman in the Roselawn grave remains Jane Doe, police officials said other avenues for DNA searches are being pursued. Sheriff's Detective Jeff Pauli said the case will remain open and there still is a possibility the victim will be identified one day.

Detective Pauli said he received numerous tips from Colorado, New York, Canada and elsewhere when Jane Doe's photograph was distributed last year. It also was featured on "America's Most Wanted."

"It's not a hopeless case, but it is frustrating," Detective Pauli said. "We want to get her identified."
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Michigan Mother, Son Mysteriously Vanish


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In August 1981, Carolyn Sue Martin and her 2-year-old son, Mark Steven Martin, disappeared. They haven't been heard from since.
Carolyn Sue Martin had a lot to look forward to in life. The 24-year-old mother had recently reunited with her old flame and for the better part of two months in the summer of 1981, they took great care of their precious two-year-old son, Mark.
Carolyn's ex had very little to do with either her or Mark before that point -- until a paternity suit ordered him to pay child support.
In June 1981, when the court order went into effect, cops in Michigan tell AMW that Carolyn’s ex suddenly became a model father to Mark, endowing his young son with toys, clothes and whatever else the boy wanted. As a matter of fact, he reportedly made a complete 180-degree turnaround regarding his feelings toward Carolyn -- promising her the sun, the moon and the stars, as well as a better life in the future.
Shortly after her ex-boyfriend came back into Carolyn's life, cops say he told her he'd gotten a job in Texas, and he wanted her to come with him.
The day of the big move, Carolyn's brother helped load all of her and Mark's belongings into the boyfriend's '79 Pontiac Grand Prix.
But within an hour after they left the metropolitan Detroit area, Carolyn reportedly told her boyfriend she didn't want to go with him to Texas anymore. According to police reports from 1981, he left her and her young son on the side of I-75 with nothing more than a suitcase, $4,000 in cash and the clothes on their backs.
No one has seen or heard from them since.
Authorities now consider both Carolyn and Mark to be legally deceased, and foul play is suspected in their disappearance.


Decades Later, Few Clues Point To Duo's Whereabouts


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Mark Steven Martin was just 2 years old when he disappeared Aug. 31, 1981. He reportedly was dropped off on the side of I-75, just north of Toledo, Ohio, with his mother.
Over the years, a handful of tips came in to police, but they never were able to find Carolyn or Mark Martin.
Carolyn's then-boyfriend cooperated with police in 1981, but the cops initially investigating the case were unable to verify if he was in any way involved with her long-term disappearance. Charges were never filed and the case idled for decades.
In the time that has passed, their names, DOBs and Social Security numbers have never been used.
Authorities now consider both Carolyn and Mark to be legally deceased, and foul play is suspected in their disappearance.
DNA Results Squash Glimmer Of Hope
More than 27 years had passed when the Michigan State Police began re-investigating a 1982 Jane Doe murder case from the metro-Detroit area. That case involved the body of a white woman in her mid-20s who had washed up on the shores of Lake Erie in Monroe County, Mich.
The woman had been strangled to death; the cord still tied securely around her neck when two power plant workers discovered her body. Through the early months of 2009, she had still not been identified.
In March of that year, the FBI exhumed the Lake Erie Jane Doe's body, acting on a tip that she may be a missing woman from nearby Canton Township, Mich. Alas, it was determined through bone analysis and dental records that the two were unrelated.
Within a few weeks of the exhumation, a forensic artist with the Michigan State Police created a 3-D model of the victim's face, hoping the publicity would drum up some leads.
Carolyn's brother, who was one of the last people to see her and Mark alive in 1981, told police he thought the 3-D model's face was similar to that of his sister. Though initially hopeful, cops learned through DNA in late January 2010 that their Jane Doe was not Carolyn Martin.
To this day, the Lake Erie Jane Doe still remains unidentified; her killer is still at-large.
Cops Plead For Public's Help With Stone Cold Case


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With AMW's help, cops hope to reinvigorate the investigation into the bizarre 1981 disappearance of Carolyn and Mark Martin.
As of today, Carolyn and Mark's whereabouts are still entirely unknown. Both the Madison Heights Police Department and the Michigan State Police want nothing more than to bring closure to their family.
They're hopeful that by bringing the national spotlight to this investigation, someone may provide the one crucial tip to heat this cold case back up again.
If you recall seeing Carolyn Sue or Mark Steven Martin anytime on or after Aug. 31, 1981, please call our Hotline right away at 1-800-CRIME-TV.
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