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Susan Cappel

Real Name: Susan Diane Wolff Cappel
Nicknames: Susan Wolff, Sue
Location: Newcomerstown, Ohio
Date: March 16, 1982

Bio[]

Occupation: Supermarket employee
Date of Birth: March 30, 1962
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 107 pounds
Marital Status: Divorced
Characteristics: White female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is right-handed. Her upper left tooth was crooked while her upper right one was discolored when she disappeared. Her nose had healed from a fracture sustained in a car accident.

Case[]

Details: Nineteen-year-old Susan Cappel had recently gotten a divorce from her husband, Allen. They had a young son named Damin. She worked at a supermarket in her hometown of Newcomerstown, Ohio. On the night of March 16, 1982, she left work and was walking to her car when a blue one pulled up to her. She and the driver briefly spoke to each other. She then got into the car and they drove off; she has never been seen again. She left behind her paychecks, money, and identification.
In 1983, a Greyhound bus driver claimed to have picked up Susan sometime after her disappearance, taking her from Cleveland to Newcomerstown. She asked to be dropped off at a filling station, but he refused to do this and dropped her off at a bus station. However, this sighting was never confirmed.
Susan's family has never stopped searching for her and believe that Allen was involved in her disappearance. At the time, they were fighting over custody of Damin. Some believe that the custody dispute led to her disappearance. However, no one has ever been charged in this case and Susan remains missing.
Suspects: Susan's family believes that Allen may have killed her in order to get full custody over Damin. Another possible theory involved two of Allen's friends, Patrick and Robert Parrish. Patrick worked at the same filling station that the woman on the Greyhound bus asked to be dropped off at. Patrick owned an older model blue Plymouth Satellite, similar to the one that Susan was last seen getting into.
Susan's family believes that Patrick and Robert threatened Damin's life, so she agreed to disappear in order to keep him safe. In the process, Allen would receive full custody. Two weeks after Susan vanished, Robert and Patrick died in a car accident. It is not known what information they may have had regarding this case.
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Results: Unsolved. In September 2003, Allen died without ever revealing what he might have known about Susan's disappearance. In 2014, her parents had her declared legally dead. They no longer believe that she went into hiding for Damin's safety. They recalled that Allen was very controlling over her. She was also very excited about visiting Damin on March 17 (the day after she vanished). They believe that she was most likely killed by Allen that day. However, her remains have never been found.
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