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Mary Opitz










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Mary, approximately 1981; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression at Age at the time of disappearance: 57 (approximately 2018); Christopher Wilder; Mary Hare




Date reported missing : 01/16/1981

Missing location (approx) :
Fort Myers, Florida
Missing classification : Non-Family Abduction
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 12/13/1963 (57)
Age at the time of disappearance: 17 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4 - 5'5, 105 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A brown velveteen jacket, a white pullover shirt, designer blue jeans, brown pumps, two gold bEthnicity : lets, and a gold necklace with a charm.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Brown hair, green/hazel eyes. Mary has a scar between the fingers of her left hand. She wore bEthnicity : s on her teeth at the time of her disappearance, and she smoked cigarettes. Her ears are pierced.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Mary was last seen leaving the Edison Mall and heading towards the parking lot in Fort Myers, Florida on the evening January 16, 1981. She and her brother and mother had gone to the mall together at 6:30 p.m. Mary bought a packAge at the time of disappearance: of pretzels and said she was tired and going back to their car, a burgundy 1979 Chevrolet Camaro. She left carrying the pretzels and some packAge at the time of disappearance: s.
An hour later, Mary's mother went out to the parking lot and discovered her daughter was wrong. The pretzels and packAge at the time of disappearance: s were on top of the Camaro's trunk. The car was parked in a well-lit area close to the entrance of the mall's Woolworth's store.
She was initially believed to be a runaway, as there was no evidence of a crime in her case. However, Mary's family never believed she ran away: she had been saving up money to buy a van and left about $300 behind in her bank account, she was in the middle of redecorating her room, she didn't take her purse or any extra clothing with her, and she was looking forward to getting her orthodontic bEthnicity : s taken off in a few weeks.
Mary lived with her family in the 1500 block of College Parkway at the time of her disappearance. She had dropped out of high school in the tenth grade and was studying for her GED.
Mary Elizabeth Hare, an 18-year-old who physically resembled Mary Opitz, disappeared from the same parking lot on February 11, almost a month after Mary. As in Mary Opitz's case, her car was found abandoned in the parking lot and no clues were left behind. Authorities at the time were uncertain as to whether the cases were related.
A photo of Hare is posted with this case summary; she physically resembled Mary Opitz. They had other things in common as well: both of them grew up in New York and spoke with a slight regional New York accent, both disappeared while on routine errands, and both were considered well-behaved teenAge at the time of disappearance: rs with no significant problems in their lives. Mary Opitz worked at Mariner's Inn, where Hare and her friends sometimes went, but there's no evidence that the two females knew each other.
In June 1981, Hare's fully clothed and badly decomposed body was found in a field near Alabama Road and Highway 82 in a remote, undeveloped area of Lehigh Acres, Florida. She was the victim of a homicide; she had been stabbed in the back. There has been no tEthnicity : of Mary Opitz, however, and she has never been heard from again. Authorities began to suspect foul play was involved in Mary's case after Hare's body was discovered.
Authorities theorize that Christopher Wilder, a man linked to at least a dozen disappearances, rapes, murders and/or attacks of numerous women in the early to mid-1980's, is a suspect in Mary's disappearance and Hare's homicide. Photos of Wilder are posted with this case summary. He was known to frequent the Florida region during this time; he sometimes attempted to lure young female victims by offering non-existent 'modeling sessions' or other tactics.
Wilder was put on probation in 1980 after pleading guilty to attempted Gender : ual battery towards a teenAge at the time of disappearance: girl. While on a visit home to Australia that same year, he was charged with kidnapping and Gender : ually assaulting two teenAge at the time of disappearance: girls. His parents bailed him out of jail and he flew back to the United States, promising to return for his trial which was set for April 1984.
He is a also a suspect in the Florida disappearances of Rosario Gonzales, Elizabeth Kenyon, and and Tammy Leppert. He was killed during a shootout with authorities in 1984. Mary's case remains unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Lee County Sheriff's Office
239-477-1200



September 2021 updates and sources