Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/31/1972
- Missing From:
- Missing From Mansfield, Ohio
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 08/28/1930 (94)
- Age:
- Age 42 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’2 – 5’5, 115 – 125 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A brown suede car coat, brown pants, and brown loafers with tassels.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Dyer wore a full set of dentures at the time of her disappearance. Her previous married name is Bond.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On New Year’s Eve 1972, a woman named Dyer vanished from a laundromat in Mansfield, Ohio. Her car was left outside with her clean laundry inside. Years later, a man named Lawrence Davis, already in prison for murder and rape in Louisiana, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Dyer’s death.
Davis had been a suspect from the start. Just months before Dyer disappeared, he was charged with kidnapping two sisters from a laundromat (the same type of place Dyer vanished from). While out on bail for that charge, Dyer disappeared. Although the kidnapping charges were later dropped, Davis was still convicted of assaulting another woman.
Davis claimed a friend killed Dyer and that he dumped her body in the woods, but police found nothing. He was given a 20-year sentence for Dyer’s death, to be served at the same time as his Louisiana sentence.
Dyer was a beautician, a mother of six, and lived with two of her children. Her body has never been found, but everything points to foul play.
- Agency:
- Mansfield Police Department 412-522-1234
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This person was missing Missing Since 12/31/1972