Spence Missing Women

Speculation in June Spence’s “Missing Women”

June Spence’s “Missing Women” is a story of three women’s mysterious disappearance. Indications of how the women, a mother, Kay, her daughter, Vicki, and her daughter’s friend, Adelle, lived their lives and may have vanished are provided throughout the story, but in the end, it appears no one had all of the details needed to provide closure to the case. The information contained in the story is obtained by a variety townspeople, including friends, family and neighbors thought to have known the women. Friends of the missing girls said they were last seen attending a graduation party; no one is certain when or where Kay was last seen. Rumors swirl of how they may have faded away, but it is undetermined if they were snatched by some passerby or fled to escape situations they did not want to face. The search for these women proved to be endless. All of the women in the story seem to have differing and very interesting backgrounds. Spence depicts Kay as a
Some stated Adelle and Vicki may have had an altercation, while others say they were hugging and dancing on the front lawn of the party house prior to leaving the event. A local waitress states, “She is fairly certain she served the three women omelets, French toast, and coffee around two A.M. on the day of the disappearance.” (257), while the QuickMart clerk claims a women resembling Kay entered the store and asked if anyone had seen two teenaged girls around the same time. “A man calling himself a freelance private eye and soldier of fortune says he helped the women conceal their identities and relocate, to where he is forbidden to disclose, but rest assured they are alive and well, enjoying lucrative careers in finance.” (258). Leads continually flow into police by a variety of interested parties, but none appear to be concrete or