Stella Darlene Nolan-1953 Missing Child in California

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Jul 16, 2005, 10:03:37 PM7/16/05

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While I was looking through microfilms of my local newspaper from the
summer of 1953 to research a news event from that period, I happend to
come across a series of Associated Press dispatches about an
eight-year-old girl who disappeared in late June of that year from
Norwalk, California. Her name was Stella Darlene Nolan, and she
apparently vanished while her foster (or adoptive-the stories I read
weren't clear about the relationship) mother was busy running a booth
at a flea market. I only had time to follow the stories up through
about the middle of July, but I was able to look at the New York Times
index for that period and her name or possible variations thereof don't
show up, so I don't know if she was ever found, or if so, under what
circumstances.

Does anyone else? (Yes, I Googled for her without success, so someone
who was around back then for whom the name jogs a memory is going to
have to ride to the rescue. There *was* such a thing as life before
the Web, you know.)

Kris Baker

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Jul 16, 2005, 10:19:09 PM7/16/05

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Yes, but people tend to put only things *they* remember on a
website....and I don't know if there's an AP archive or not.
I also googled several variations of the name, left out some
data, added other bits....and found nothing.

About all I can think of is a phone call to the Norwark CA
police department..

Kris
Something I was too young to remember
I'm amazed

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Jul 16, 2005, 10:20:27 PM7/16/05

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Jul 16, 2005, 10:23:41 PM7/16/05

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I found an article about a Mark Guy Edwards who confessed in 1970 to
killing her and several other children in the ensuing years. Google him
and I think you will find her but no real details. He took her and
murdered her. He hung himself in 1971

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Jul 16, 2005, 10:24:26 PM7/16/05

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Jul 16, 2005, 11:56:29 PM7/16/05

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I yahooed for her:

http://www.free-webspace.biz/thevictims/nolan_stella.html
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/E/EDWARDS_mack_ray.htm

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Jul 17, 2005, 2:21:02 AM7/17/05

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Thanks to all of you who replied. I really should apologize, though,
because when I went back and Googled again on " 'Stella Nolan' 1953,"
your answers were in the first two pages that came up. I guess those
newly-minted billionaires were taking the night off the evening I first
came across all this. Oh, well.

Anyway, nice guy, that Edwards, wasn't he? Good that the families of
his victims got some sense of justice and closure, and good that he
saved the taxpayers of California the cost of supporting him for
decades that they would have incurred once the death penalty statutes
then in force were overturned. Hey, it's not like they'd have had the
money to waste. After all, Charles Manson and his minions are all
still in good health, and it doesn't look like Sirhan Sirhan is going
to kick the bucket anytime soon, either.

Kris Baker

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Jul 17, 2005, 11:42:08 AM7/17/05

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I googled for that exact thing last night, and *nothing* came
up. Now it does. Isn't that funny?

Kris
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Jul 17, 2005, 3:21:14 PM7/17/05

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> I googled for that exact thing last night, and *nothing* came
> up. Now it does. Isn't that funny?

The different search engines don't always have every single page on the
internet listed.

And sometimes, a site can be listed one week, and gone the next, even though
it's still up.

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