Post by hi224 on Aug 11, 2019 3:16:36 GMT
On January 1, 1980, a 14 year old female named Alma Violet Root (she usually went by Violet) disappeared.
Her childhood was tragic; she and her sister named Laura Huff spent several years hopping from foster home to foster home after running away from an abusive home life. Regardless of their situation (and the fact that they often had to stay at different foster homes), Alma and her sister remained close throughout their adolescence. Her father was taken incarcerated and charged with sexual assault of both Alma and her sister. He isn’t a suspect in this case since he was in custody the day she went missing.
A while before Alma disappeared, both sisters were taken to live with their grandmother in Applegate, California and resumed a normal life for a short time.
During this period of time Alma started a romantic relationship with 25 year old Scott Petschek. He was with her on the day she went missing while picking her up from her grandmother’s house in the evening.
Petschek states that the pair went to his grandmother’s house and spent some time there. According to his statements, Alma requested that he take her to a specific location in Rio Linda via his car to visit her aunt. He obliged and dropped her off at the requested place.
Petschek then went to his work at McClellan Air Force Base. After his shift, he want back to pick Alma up from Rio Linda. She was gone. He was the last person to see her.
Upon learning of her disappearance, her family reported to investigators that she doesn’t have an aunt that lives in Rio Linda. Petschek informed authorities that he wasn’t alarmed; she frequently ran away and hitchhiked, but always came back. Because of this, officers believe that she ran away willingly and may be traveling with a male companion. No further comments have been made about this statement.
Although the authorities assume that Alma ran away, her sister insists that this isn’t the case. Huff remarks that Alma wouldn’t have left without her, as the pair always ran away together and never excluded each other or ran away alone. The case closed before it was reopened in 1991.
Authorities reinterviewed Petschek and even searched the well behind his grandmother’s home (where Alma and Petschek were located shortly before her disappearance) but found nothing of interest. Since then, no further clues have been found and the case is now cold.
What I find particularly odd is that when Huff asked Petschek on his opinion on Alma’s disappearance, he stated that Huff will never find Alma. This could just mean that he isn’t necessarily optimistic about finding her, but it sounds chilling.
Furthermore, sometime after 1980, Petschek was taken into custody and convicted for child molestation. He is now included in the sex offender database and hasn’t been charged for Alma’s disappearance.
Alma’s case has very little information on where she could be or if there is a chance she is still alive, and there is a possibility that she could have ran away of her own will. However, this case remains unresolved.
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Her childhood was tragic; she and her sister named Laura Huff spent several years hopping from foster home to foster home after running away from an abusive home life. Regardless of their situation (and the fact that they often had to stay at different foster homes), Alma and her sister remained close throughout their adolescence. Her father was taken incarcerated and charged with sexual assault of both Alma and her sister. He isn’t a suspect in this case since he was in custody the day she went missing.
A while before Alma disappeared, both sisters were taken to live with their grandmother in Applegate, California and resumed a normal life for a short time.
During this period of time Alma started a romantic relationship with 25 year old Scott Petschek. He was with her on the day she went missing while picking her up from her grandmother’s house in the evening.
Petschek states that the pair went to his grandmother’s house and spent some time there. According to his statements, Alma requested that he take her to a specific location in Rio Linda via his car to visit her aunt. He obliged and dropped her off at the requested place.
Petschek then went to his work at McClellan Air Force Base. After his shift, he want back to pick Alma up from Rio Linda. She was gone. He was the last person to see her.
Upon learning of her disappearance, her family reported to investigators that she doesn’t have an aunt that lives in Rio Linda. Petschek informed authorities that he wasn’t alarmed; she frequently ran away and hitchhiked, but always came back. Because of this, officers believe that she ran away willingly and may be traveling with a male companion. No further comments have been made about this statement.
Although the authorities assume that Alma ran away, her sister insists that this isn’t the case. Huff remarks that Alma wouldn’t have left without her, as the pair always ran away together and never excluded each other or ran away alone. The case closed before it was reopened in 1991.
Authorities reinterviewed Petschek and even searched the well behind his grandmother’s home (where Alma and Petschek were located shortly before her disappearance) but found nothing of interest. Since then, no further clues have been found and the case is now cold.
What I find particularly odd is that when Huff asked Petschek on his opinion on Alma’s disappearance, he stated that Huff will never find Alma. This could just mean that he isn’t necessarily optimistic about finding her, but it sounds chilling.
Furthermore, sometime after 1980, Petschek was taken into custody and convicted for child molestation. He is now included in the sex offender database and hasn’t been charged for Alma’s disappearance.
Alma’s case has very little information on where she could be or if there is a chance she is still alive, and there is a possibility that she could have ran away of her own will. However, this case remains unresolved.
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