Thirty-four-year-old Marion Hodges lived in Balgray, Lockerbie, Scotland. She had two children and worked at the city’s Clydesdale Bank.
At around seven-thirty p.m. on Friday, July 6th, 1984, she was dropped off in the Whitesands area of Dumfries. The last time she was seen, she was wearing a cream-colored blouse with a high collar, a gray skirt, and black sandals, and was carrying a brown purse and a blue canvas suitcase.
Three days later, after family and friends had heard nothing further from her, she was reported to the police as a missing person. Associates told the authorities that the day Marion vanished was her son’s fifteenth birthday, and she never would have simply left of her own volition, especially on such an important date.
Despite a thorough investigation, Marion was never found, and in 1992, was declared legally dead and presumed murdered. To this day, the whereabouts of her remains are unknown.
In February 2022, Police Scotland reopened the case and made a new plea in the media for information. More than a year later, in December 2023, detectives served an indictment to an unnamed seventy-eight-year-old man in connection with Marion Hodges’s disappearance, following a lead provided by the 2022 appeal.
The inquiry is still ongoing.
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