Close, but cigar (off by only nine years).
According to the Bangor Daily News,
Julian[Francis "Frank" Julian, the deceased 80-year-old] reported Wardwell missing July 11, 1983, telling Salem, N.H., police that he dropped the 29-year-old woman [Kitty Wardwell] off at the El Rancho Motel in Salem after a fight and then traveled back to Maine without her. Marla Collins, Kitty Wardwell’s sister, reported her missing to the Maine State Police on Nov. 23, 1983.
Perfection in crime.
Thank-you for the link.
I guess I was off by three years.....the girlfriend went missing in 1983, not 1980, as I had mentioned in my post.
I clicked on your link, and the article was dated October 23, 2011. The media here in Maine reported in the late Spring of 2012 the story about the discovery of Kitty’s body in the storage locker. I don’t know why they waited over six months to report the news, but delays, omissions, mistakes, falsehoods, or non-reporting of news worthy stories altogether seem to be the staple of the lame stream media these days.