(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A missing persons case in Indiana’s LaGrange County has been solved after more than 70 years.
The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Office said it was a genealogist who connected the dots and solved a case that has troubled a family for generations.
Ralph Stutzman disappeared from his farm in 1952. He had a wife and 13 children. Now, 71 years later, the family knows part of the story.
Genealogy linked the Stutzman family to a family named Schrock, in Florida. Officials said Stutzman became Delbert Schrock and started a new family. He died in 1968.
Ben Boyd, his grandson, spoke to WSBT in South Bend.
“It's a relief for my mother,” said Boyd. “For years and years, she's always said that she'd like to know what happened to her dad before she died, and she's 92 years old.”
Why Stutzman left might always be a mystery to the family, but members of both of his families have met.
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