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Article: 1975; Sturgeon Bay case Home searched in disappearance Cadaver dog used at husband's house
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2008
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A cadaver-sniffing dog alerted investigators Monday to a crawl
space at a Michigan home of a man whose wife disappeared from their
Sturgeon Bay home more than three decades ago.
Investigators with a search warrant visited the Cheboygan County,
Mich., property where Richard G. Pierce has lived since he moved
from Sturgeon Bay less than two weeks after his wife, Carol Jean
Pierce, was last seen, Sturgeon Bay Police Sgt. Investigator Dan
Brinkman said.
Before she vanished, Carol Jean Pierce wrote to her mother about
her marital difficulties, police said. The letters stopped shortly
before Pierce was last seen in September 1975 and her husband moved
their mobile home from Sturgeon Bay to ...