Fallet Symes verkar vara så gott som bortglömt, det omnämns så vitt jag kan konstatera endast i detta blogginlägg. Försvinnandet jämförs i samma andetag som
Bruce Campbells fall fyra år tidigare, som det ännu under 2000-talet skrivits en hel del om.
http://theunscholar.blogspot.com/201...ever-here.html
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My fascination with unexplained disappearances was rekindled years ago when I came across a book by Robert S. Gallagher titled If I Had It to Do Over Again: America’s Adult Dropouts. [----] most disappearances are best explained as decisions by rational adults to start anew as someone else.
Yet another spooky vanishing was that of one Bruce Nelson Campbell, the “Man in the Green Pajamas,” who was discovered missing from his Jacksonville motel room in May 1959, leaving his glasses, wallet, and car keys a day after he had been treated by a doctor for “exhaustion.” There is also the story of John T. Symes, Jr., a New York banker who left his small town in the autumn of 1963 saying he “had to get away for a while.” He was last seen by a waitress at a Manhattan lunch counter.
Boken som nämns i citatet -
If I had It to do Over Again … America’s Adult Dropouts - utkom redan 1969, och verkar inte vara vidare läst idag.
https://www.wilmonie.com/pages/books...adult-dropouts
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Åtminstone 1978 så var detta försvinnande fortfarande olöst.
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