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. Winifred wore contact lenses at the time of her disappearance. Her nickname is Winnie and her maiden name is Connett.

Details of Disappearance

Winifred 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, Alvin L. Long, 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, Winifred 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 Alvin. 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 Winifred's vehicle, but no sign of Winifred herself. Alvin stated that when she'd started to leave the ranch, her car's transmission broke down and she decided to take the bus home and leave the children with him, and he dropped her off at the Greyhound bus station near the foot of the 10th Street Bridge in Marysville. However, records showed that no one had purchased a ticket to Mill Valley on the night of Winifred's disappearance, and no witnesses reported seeing her at the bus station.

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

Alvin volunteered to take a polygraph test shortly after Winifred's disappearance; the results were inconclusive. He was a Korean War veteran and had had both legs amputated below the knee due to war wounds, but did not use a wheelchair; he walked on crutches or on the stumps of his legs. He had prosthetic legs but didn't like to use them.

Winifred had said she felt anxious about the trip to the ranch that day. Several of Winifred's family members believe Alvin did not drop her off at the bus station that evening but instead killed her on his property east of Chuck Yeager Road and disposed of his body.

Winifred is originally from Athens, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University with honors in 1955. She spoke several foreign languages fluently. Her family still hopes to learn her fate. Her case remains unsolved.