The cold case of a mother named Myrtle Brown, who went to a hospital and never returned, has been solved after 32 years, all thanks to her brother named Robert Brown.
And the Daily Mail got the details of how the mystery was solved;
Myrtle Brown went missing at the age of 35, in 1990 while visiting her friends in New York; her fate remained unknown until her brother Robert Brown had a fortuitous encounter with a TV special about unidentified bodies.
The more than three-decade cold case was solved by a chance encounter with a news broadcast, but prior to the TV segment, the Brown family suffered for 32 years, constantly agonizing about where their mother could be.
While Myrtle was visiting friends in New York, her purse, which had her epilepsy medication inside, was stolen.
After her purse was snatched, she phoned daughter Eboney Brown, who was 13 at the time, and the rest of her family to detail what had happened and let them she know she was headed to the King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn to refill her medication.
In an interview with NBC, Eboney said: ‘She ended up going by herself and then that was the last moment, you know, we ever heard from her.’
Mrytle’s family searched high and low for her, visiting local police stations and hospitals, but were never able to find their mother.
‘I never thought she passed away.
‘I thought maybe she just wanted something different, maybe, out of life. I didn’t know, to be honest, I was just confused and sad,’ her daughter said.
The family went wondering what became of their loved one for 32 years, until one day, Robert turned on the TV and began watching NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
At the time, there was a special about cold cases and it discussed the team of people who investigated these unsolved mysteries that traced back decades.
One of the team members was Dr. Angela Soler, assistant director of forensic anthropology, who shared that the team managed nearly 1,250 unidentified person cases.
While watching, Robert spotted an image on a missing person’s poster of a facial reconstruction, which is a tool the cold case team used to recreate facial structure and features with a clay model to help catch the attention of those watching.
Here is how the eventually found out what happened to Myrtle.
Two days after the segment aired, Robert and his wife called the medical examiner’s office in hopes of finding his sister.
Although the woman Robert saw wasn’t his sister, Soler and her team had everything they needed to get to work to reveal the truth about what happened to Myrtle.
Soler said: ‘I took a look at the reconstruction and noticed, OK, I’m probably looking for a middle-aged Black woman.
‘It all matched with what the family was telling us, and we were also informed that she went missing in May of 1990. So I knew exactly where to start my search.’
Soler reviewed over two weeks of records labeled ‘unverified unknowns’ over the span of two months.
She started her search by reviewing May 1, 1990 death dates, until she reached an individual who had passed away on May 17, 1990.
‘In this instance, the contextual information included the date that she passed away.
‘She passed away in Brooklyn, which matched the family telling me that she used to receive medical care in Brooklyn.
‘She had a presumptive name that matched, a presumptive date of birth that matched, and the family had given some medical information about their missing loved one that also matched what was in the case file,’ Soler revealed to NBC.
The family then finally learned the truth about what happened to Myrtle.
Myrtle was never admitted into the King’s County Hospital, but the Robert and Eboney learned that she had been waiting in the emergency and had a seizure and died.
Myrtle had only given the hospital her name and date of birth.
The Brown family was able to hold a virtual memorial for Myrtle and noted that they were finally at peace after finding out what happened.
Crazy case.
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