ABSTRACT
Katherine Hull’s disappearance was the earliest, in April 1936. še 22-year-old stenographer, with her father, was visiting the young woman’s grandmother in Lebanon Springs, New York, close to the Massachusetts
border. On a cool spring day, Katherine threw on a green wool coat and told her family she was going for a walk. When she did not return that evening, her father called the New York State Police. Several witnesses claimed that they had seen a young woman matching Katherine’s description hitchhiking along New York Route 22 and entering a car. According to a newspaper report, Katherine’s grandmother told the police that the young woman “was fond of walking and frequently had gone on hitchhiking jaunts before.”1 However, her family said that on previous occasions, she had always le« a note. During the following days and weeks, search teams were organized and reward posters were hung in bus stations and railroad terminals, but Katherine seemingly vanished without a trace.2
