On a warm August day in 1982, 20-year-old Maggie Hume did not show up for her job in Battle Creek, Michigan. Since she was normally very dependable, her employer and co-workers were worried right away. A co-worker called Maggie’s boyfriend that morning, who in turn contacted her family. Raised in a close-knit and religious family, Maggie was smart, friendly and outgoing. She had been living in an apartment after recently moving from her parents’ house, so that was the first place they went to look for her.
Join us at the quiet end for A Cold Case in Battle Creek. Maggie’s brother and boyfriend looked inside her apartment, finding her car keys and glasses still there, her phone off the hook, and her alarm clock going off. After failing to locate Maggie, her roommate called the police. It seemed that Maggie had vanished into thin air, until they looked in her closet. Maggie’s body was found in the closet. She had been murdered, with red marks on her neck indicating strangulation. A missing person’s case quickly became a murder investigation, but the case would go cold as justice eluded her grieving family.
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Sources
Macabre Mondays: The Tragic Story of Maggie Hume, Yesterday’s America, https://yesterdaysamerica.com/macabre-mondays-the-tragic-story-of-maggie-hume
The Battle Creek Murders Part 1 & 2, Two Sleuths Podcast, 2013.
The Murder of Maggie Hume by Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester, 2014.
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