{"id":1788529,"date":"2022-12-28T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788529"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:18:59","slug":"she-disappeared-without-a-trace-in-1984-a-handwritten-note-just-led-to-her-husbands-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-disappeared-without-a-trace-in-1984-a-handwritten-note-just-led-to-her-husbands-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1984, she disappeared without trace. A Handwritten Note Just Led To Her Husband\u2019s Arrest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshe-disappeared-without-a-trace-in-1984-a-handwritten-note-just-led-to-her-husbands-arrest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> We have arrested the husband and wife of a woman who disappeared in 1984 without leaving behind a note that claimed she was running an errand.<\/p>\n<p>Maryann Bagenstose, a 25-year-old nurse\u2019s aide in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was supposed to meet with her estranged husband, then 29-year-old Jere Musser Bagenstose, to trade in her car and purchase a new one, KIRO 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiro7.com\/news\/trending\/handwriting-note-leads-arrest-pennsylvania-man-wifes-1984-murder\/ZNS4TII745BNPMRJ6GUGSCWZ44\/?fbclid=IwAR1JZC6muZZ8Xk2L6g711osonADesYxW1urkOuBwGab5A3MMQo6KPOPK5Gk\">reported<\/a>. According to police, Maryann expressed excitement about the purchase of the new vehicle and said that she spoke often with her husband despite their separation.<\/p>\n<p>Jere <a href=\"https:\/\/lancaster.crimewatchpa.com\/da\/11617\/post\/charges-filed-killing-maryann-bagenstose-1984\">told<\/a> Pequea Township police that he arrived at the home where his wife, their two-year-old son, and a boarder lived to pick her up, but that she wasn\u2019t ready. Jere said he then took his son to nearby Long\u2019s Park and when he returned to the house, Maryann was not there and had left a handwritten note saying she had walked to the Turkey Hill store.<\/p>\n<p>She was never seen alive again.<\/p>\n<p>Jere never reported his wife missing, but her mother did on June 7 after she couldn\u2019t reach her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Jere and a police officer were speaking on June 8th 1984 when they noticed cardboard covering newly dug dirt. A search warrant executed on June 13 did not find Maryann\u2019s body, however. Investigators discovered a crumpled letter in a wooden nailkeg. It read: \u201cHad to run a quick errand, be right back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the note, Maryann\u2019s mother Geraldine Engongoro told reporters that her daughter wouldn\u2019t have walked to the store because she had a limp from a previous car crash and wore a lift in one of her shoes, KIRO 7 reported.<\/p>\n<p>Maryann was missing for 10 days and Jere was scheduled to appear at a custody hearing on June 15th. When Maryann didn\u2019t appear at the hearing, custody of their son was awarded to Jere.<\/p>\n<p>Jere had also moved back into the couple\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses at the Turkey Hill store told police they hadn\u2019t seen Maryann on the day of her disappearance, and workers at Long\u2019s Park said they never saw Jere or his truck on that day. Police also discovered that Jere had an unexplained absence from work the day Maryann disappeared, as well as an unspecified injury on his left arm. For this reason, he gave inconsistent statements.<\/p>\n<p>Though police suspected Jere was behind his wife\u2019s disappearance, he maintained that he had nothing to do with it and that she was still alive. He claimed that witnesses had told him Maryann was there, and that he had also received postcards from her. However, he did not turn them over to police.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster Online last week <a href=\"https:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/news\/local\/investigators-sent-jere-bagenstose-postcards-purportedly-from-missing-wife\/article_2de7e41e-824e-11ed-8e2f-0f7f25b07097.html\">reported<\/a> that it was actually investigators who sent those postcards to Jere, as well as a private detective hired by Maryann\u2019s mother. The postcards were designed to communicate the idea of to \u201cprovoke something new in the investigation. \u2026 The idea being if she\u2019s still alive, perhaps you want to make somebody aware of that,\u201d Heather Adams, Lancaster County District attorney, stated at a press conference on 12\/22\/2022.<\/p>\n<p>Maryann\u2019s disappearance was reopened in late 2018, with investigators focusing on the note found during the June 13, 1984, search warrant. Investigators obtained handwriting samples of Maryann and Jere from Jere to confirm that the note was written by Jere.<\/p>\n<p>Jere was detained on December 22, 2022 and is currently being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn arrest in this 38-year-old case has certainly been long awaited,\u201d Adams made the remarks at the press conference. \u201cThis is not a case solved with DNA. Rather, the arrest of Jere Bagenstose is the result of decades of hard work and dedication by law enforcement personnel, beginning in 1984 with members of the Pequea Township Police Department and continuing with numerous criminal investigators in the Pennsylvania State Police leading up to the present day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maryann\u2019s body has never been found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Pennsylvania have arrested the husband of a woman who vanished without a trace in 1984 after leaving behind a note allegedly claiming she had stepped out to run an errand. Maryann Bagenstose, a 25-year-old nurse\u2019s aide in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was supposed to meet with her estranged husband, then 29-year-old Jere Musser Bagenstose, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1788532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12163,5175,6202,12162,12160,5569,7456,3671,12161,6195],"class_list":["post-1788529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-12163","tag-arrest","tag-daily","tag-disappeared","tag-handwritten","tag-husbands","tag-led","tag-note","tag-trace","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}