Marjorie Dabney (70yo) skeletal remains found at DFW 7 years later (murdered)
MuffyBee:
Thank you for all the background info and the photo of Mrs. Dabney, Nut. This is a very sad case. ::MonkeyNoNo:: I can't begin to understand how her family felt with her missing from the airport, and then being found years later like she was. Very strange and very sad.
Wyks:
Yes, this is a very sad case.
Am sure that we all could benefit from hindsight.
From reading the articles, it appears that this couple was provided an escort by the airline in Dallas. I'd like to know why this couple went on their journey without anyone accompanying them the entire way? Just am thinking that if these had been my loved ones, one physically disabled and one with Alzheimer's, I would have ensured that someone went with them for the entire trip, or gone with them myself. It's confusing enough for those without disabilities to find their way thru some of these huge airports sucessfully, stressful at times, and tons of things can go wrong, including an unexpected layover. It just boggles my mind that they were traveling without an escort thru the whole trip. Yes, it's good to have had an escort in Dallas. And yet, that didn't help much as there were two of them vs one escort.
Not laying blame totally at the family's feet with this. The airline had some responsibility and IMO, deserves some of the blame, but not all. The escort who accompanied Joe to the restroom should have, IMO, called for a backup escort to remain with Margie. I am astonished that this apparently was not done, and on top of that, the escort asked Margie to meet them at the gate. ?? An Alzheimer's patient is going to be able to navigate that very huge airport alone, finding her way to the correct gate? I don't think so! So in some respect, IMO, the airport shares the blame in what happened to Margie.... however.... also IMO, the family is just as much to blame for not ensuring that someone went with them thruout the entire trip.
Sad.....
::MonkeyNoNo::
Nut44x4:
The Bakersfield Californian
January 25, 2009 Sunday
Police: Case cold again despite recent finding of woman's remains
Jan. 25--The discovery a few months ago of the body of a Bakersfield woman who disappeared from a Dallas airport in 2001 gave new hope for finding out what happened to her.
But after an extensive review of evidence, the hope has faded. Police say they have no leads.
Even so, the Lewisville Police Department, which took over the investigation after Marjorie "Margie" Dabney's remains were identified two months ago, is continuing to investigate.
Capt. Kevin Deaver said he's trying to get the case on the "America's Most Wanted" television program. Detectives will also return to the remote lakeside road where her remains were found for a further review, he said.
Deaver revealed for the first time Thursday that the 70-year-old Dabney, a diabetic and Alzheimer's patient, was not on any videos his department has received from the airport.
He also said a report that she was seen on the tarmac outside the airport building is "unconfirmed."
Dabney was last seen Dec. 5, 2001 while traveling with her husband, Joe, from Indianapolis to their new home in Bakersfield. He, too, cannot be seen on any video, Deaver said.
During a layover, an airline escort took her wheelchair-bound husband to the restroom and asked Margie to meet them at the gate.
She never showed.
Her daughter, Candice Price of Indianapolis, said Thursday she's certain someone abducted Dabney because "my mother would never walk away. She was too clingy to my daddy."
Price said that this month she put her mother's pictures up on Myspace.com, a social networking Web site, in hopes of finding someone who may have seen her.
Dabney's pictures were published and broadcast in the Texas media after her remains were identified, but nothing promising came from the few calls police received, police said.
In November, 2007, Margie's skeletal remains were found by a dirt road after a controlled burn in a remote area by Lewisville Lake, about 15 miles northwest of the airport.
Another burn nearly a year later revealed Margie's multicolored sweater, dark pants, a bus pass, an American Airlines tag and an AARP card. DNA tests later confirmed the remains were hers.
Joe Dabney said in November that he had hoped his wife of 34 years would be found a live. He could not be reached for comment Thursday.
A pathologist said the nature of fractures on Dabney's skull shows she was either hit or shot in the head.
Her disappearance drew national attention. A lawsuit against American Airlines was settled in 2003 for an undisclosed amount.
Lewisville police have reviewed the airport investigation and have obtained tollgate records to show license plates of vehicles that entered and left the airport, Deaver said.
But those records are not in good shape, he noted.
Police also tried to find store videos in the area where her remains were found, but they had been destroyed by the time they asked, he said.
Suspicious activity reported in communities near Lewisville was reviewed, but produced no promising results, he said.
Lewisville has a population of about 100,000, less than a third of the size of Bakersfield. The police department has five detectives assigned to crimes against person.
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