Woman Missing Eight Years Is Home for Christmas

Reuters ^

[OldFriend]

We have to pray for people who always think the worst of others.......makes one wonder........

[Gabz]

Good for you and your friend. Stick by her - she's going to need you.

When I left my (insert expletive) in 1988 - he never once said he wanted me to stay because he loved me - it was all "I can't afford this......without you."

For 4 years he held me hostage with "you can't make it in this town without me."

I walked out of there with what I walked in with - my clothes and furniture - and even told him I would pay the cost of the divorce proceedings (that's how badly I wanted out).

During all of this he was using me as a professional/job reference and still had the gall to tell me he expected me to pay his 2 grand in legal fees. I was smart and refused - I later found out he was charged nothing.

Stick by your friend - she's going to need people like you.

[Travis McGee]

WOW!

[Johnny Gage]

I heard over the weekend about a similiar story.

About a child in California who's been missing for 6 years, was recently found, with who they suspected killed the childs mother???

[HeadOn]

Read it again - NASH-VILLE. That's Tennessee. We still have SOME humanity left down here.

[HaveGunWillTravel]

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[crystalk]

I dare say that a bedraggled looking person, could flop around in homeless shelters and missions, look for work, beg, seek aid, etc. for years even if she DID know her own name, before anyone necessarily would even check to see if someone by that name were reported missing or wanted by family somewhere.

This even though today, any of us could get on a computer and find persons with similar name, news stories of her vanishing, and the like.

PS Wonder how much money she had? Apparently she also owned a home

[crystalk]

Oh, BTW, despite offices in large cities like Nashville, A G Edwards has little offices in little towns across the South and Midcountry

and (assuming there was only one Alice Perley) they could quickly have called her former broker (their brokers stay with them forever) and he would have known all about her circumstances (their brokers usually know the client quite well)...and that would have done it.

With no account number.

[pgyanke]

"Oh, BTW, despite offices in large cities like Nashville, A G Edwards has little offices in little towns across the South and Midcountry..."

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Actually, A.G. Edwards has over 700 offices nationwide... not just a small, regional firm...

[Aliska]

They probably have everything on the computer and may have just been able to use her name without any other info. Everything is usually cross-indexed on computers. But the fact that he called the other broker leads me to believe that they verified her account in another manner. Naturally they couldn't hand over any money without some form of id.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Sounds like a happy ending. I've read that she had gone through a painful divorce. Did she have children when she left home? The article also said:

"she got arrested. Last spring she was accused of causing a public disturbance and ordered to go to mental health court. She was forced to get a job and work her way into housing, he said.

By the time he met his sister Tuesday in front of the A.G. Edwards building, she was ready to come home, Fred Perley said. He credits the judge, Mark Fishburn, and Davidson County's Mental Health Court. ''It's very nice that Nashville has this system, this mental health deferral court.''

I guess the judge also deserves a Christmas Card since it was him who forced her get a job and work her way into housing. I think the judge's decision had a good effect on Ms. Perley.

[VOA]

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