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Mary Elizabeth Stuart










Missing Person Case September 2021


Mary, approximately 1977




Date reported missing : 12/10/1977

Missing location (approx) :
Honeydew, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 04/25/1945 (76)
Age at the time of disappearance: 32 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5, 135 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Mary may use the last name Danckert.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Mary and her two daughters, Fannie and Jessie, were last seen in Honeydew, California on December 10, 1977. They left home at 10:00 a.m. in Mary's red Opel station wagon with license plates numbered 456-AII. They were going to go to the grocery store, to a television repair shop in Eureka or Fairfield, California and may have also planned to see an optometrist. They were supposed to return by dark, but never did.
On January 19, 1978, Mary's vehicle was found abandoned on an old logging road a few miles from home. The car's gas line was broken and there were groceries in the back. There were no indications of foul play or a struggle. There has been no sign of Mary or the children since 1977.
Byron McGray Stuart, who was Mary's husband and Fannie and Jessie's father, has long been considered the prime suspect in their disappearances. He had a bad temper and a violent history, but authorities never had enough evidence to charge him.
After his family disappeared, Byron was behaving strangely, abusing drugs, and said his wife and children had been abducted by aliens. He was an alcoholic and a drug addict who went into recovery after he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991. He never remarried or had any other children. He died in 1996, Age at the time of disappearance: 48.
The investigation into the Stuarts' disappearances was reopened in 2009 and investigators hope to recover Mary, Fannie and Jessie's remains. Their cases remain unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Humboldt County District Attorney's Office
707-445-7251



September 2021 updates and sources

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The Eureka Times-Standard
Unsolved in the News
The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
The Redwood Times
The North Coast Journal




October 12, 2004. March 12, 2018; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.