Winifred Corrine Long

• Missing Since 06/10/1962
• Missing From Marysville, California
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 12/07/1931 (94)
• Age 30 years old
• Height and Weight 5'8, 140 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A white blouse, red, blue and green checked capri pants and white saddle shoes.
• Distinguishing Characteristics White female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Long wore contact lenses at the time of her disappearance.

Details of Disappearance

Long was last seen in Marysville, California on June 10, 1962. She lived in the 30 block of Somerset Lane in Mill Valley, California. Her estranged husband had taken their three-year-old son with him for a trip to the 320-acre cattle ranch near the Beale Air Force Base where he lived.

On June 10, Long left home with their one-year-old son. She said she planned to pick up her older son and take him back home, and she might leave the one-year-old with her husband. She told her roommate, "I'll be back for dinner. If I don't come back tonight, come and get me." Her roommate thought this was a joke. She waited until the next day before reporting her disappearance to authorities.

The police went to the ranch and found Long's vehicle, but no sign of Long herself. Her husband stated that when she'd started to leave the ranch, her car's transmission broke down. She decided to take the bus home and leave the children with him, and he dropped her off at the Greyhound. However, records showed that no one had purchased a ticket to Mill Valley on the night of Long's disappearance.

She has never been heard from again. A mechanic checked her car and said that although the transmission was defective, the car was driveable.

At the time of her disappearance, Long was employed as a clerk/typist at the Safeway supermarket in Mill Valley; she'd been working there only about three weeks. She and her husband had separated two months before she went missing, but regularly met to exchange custody of their sons.

Long's husband volunteered to take a polygraph test shortly after her disappearance; the results were inconclusive. He was a Korean War veteran and had had both legs amputated due to war wounds, but did not use a wheelchair; he walked on crutches or on the stumps of his legs. He and Long, his second wife, had separated two months before her disappearance. Long had said she felt anxious about the trip to the ranch that day.

Long graduated from Ohio State University in 1955, with honors, and spoke several foreign languages fluently. Little information is available as to her fate.