Marjorie West (1933 - ?). American child who went missing from McKean County, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1938. Her disappearance was heavily covered by both local and national media, but her whereabouts have never been ascertained.
On May 8, 1938, Marjorie, along with her parents, 7-year-old brother Allan and 11-year-old sister Dorothea, attended a church in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After they attended the church, they went to Marshburg, Pennsylvania for a picnic to celebrate Mother's Day. Dorothea left Marjorie alone while she spoke to her mother. When Dorothea went back to Marjorie, she had disappeared and was never seen again. Her parents called the police, but the police found no evidence of Marjorie's whereabouts.
In 2010, a local publisher, Harold Thomas Beck, claimed to have solved the mystery by identifying Marjorie with Sylvia Waldrop London. She eventually admitted that her mother confessed on her deathbed to her husband having stolen her from a park, and that she had remembered the names Dorothea and Allan from childhood.
- "Dorothea and Marjorie, a red-haired girl who was dressed like Shirley Temple (in the style of the time), picked violets together." https://carenlissner.medium.com/the-still-unsolved-mystery-of-a-little-girl-who-vanished-in-1938-7f9d6edeee04
- "... another day had passed without finding the little red-haired four-year-old, Marjorie West. [...] Police began circulating a poster describing Marjorie’s “curley” red hair, freckles, red Shirley Temple hat and patent leather shoes." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/missing-marjorie-west
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