Lynn Shulze

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MIDDLEBURY — In the three weeks since Middlebury College freshman Nicholas Garza disappeared, search and rescue teams have overturned each inch of the college campus, finding nothing. The Middlebury Police Department has interviewed more than 100 people, but still their timeline for the night the 19-year-old went missing, Feb. 5, ends with an unanswered phone call at 11:06 p.m.
Just this week, Middlebury police called in a Texas nonprofit search and rescue squad called Equu-search to scour the snow-covered grounds once again.
All the while, a woman named Anne Schulze has been closely following the case from her home in New Hampshire. The dearth of leads looks a lot like something she’s seen before: Her sister, Lynne, vanished from the Middlebury campus 37 years ago.
She was never found.
“Since my family and Lynne’s friends found out about Nick’s disappearance, we have been hoping and praying along with the Middlebury community and Nick’s family that he be found safe and soon,” she said in a telephone interview.
Later this week Anne Schulze plans to meet with Middlebury Police officer Vegar Boe, who is handling the disappearances of both Garza and Lynne Schulze, to discuss her sister’s still open case. She also hopes to offer her time to speak with Garza’s parents.
Boe is the sixth investigator to work on the Lynne Schulze case since she went missing on the way to a final exam in 1971. According to Schulze, Boe has shown a renewed interest in that case since Garza disappeared earlier this month.
The two cases are completely unrelated, Schulze acknowledged, but she couldn’t help but hear an echo of her sister’s disappearance when she first found out about Garza’s.
“It is just uncanny that a freshman student has disappeared completely at a break time, again,” she said. “You can see how when no one’s around, it’s harder to realize that someone is missing. Days go by and at last someone notices.”
But those first 24 to 48 hours are crucial in a missing persons investigation, she said. Unfortunately, in both Garza’s and Lynne Schulze’s cases, at least five days passed before official searches began.
It was Friday, Dec. 10, 1971, the first day of final exams before students took off for Christmas break, when Lynne Schulze vanished. Her roommate had seen her that morning, asleep in bed. Around 12:30 p.m., one of Lynne’s good friends dropped by her dorm room so they could walk together to their exam.
As they made their way across campus, Lynne stopped and told her friend she had forgotten her favorite pen; she had to go back to her room and get it.
“It really was her favorite pen,” Schulze said, laughing, “Everyone knew about it.”
But Lynne never made it to her exam.
“She disappeared,” Schulze said. “Into thin air. In the middle of the day.”
Lynne had talked about going away for the weekend, but no one knew where she would have gone.
“Like Nicholas, she was not a person who was likely to just take off,” Schulze said. “Her friends would have been the first to be contacted.”
Three days earlier she had registered for January and spring semester classes.
When her roommate got up early the next morning to take a bus home for Christmas break, she noticed Lynne wasn’t there. But she didn’t think much of it, Schulze said. It was the end of the semester; when people finished their exams, they just took off.
“It was a different era,” she said. “It was a much more open, freer time. There wasn’t quite the concern then, nor was there the security.”
By that Monday morning, two days after Lynne was last seen, someone alerted campus security that she was missing. They searched her room and found all of her belongings, including her ID and her checkbook — $30 had been cashed on the day of the exam.
Five days went by before Lynne’s parents found out their daughter was missing, according to Schulze. One of Lynne’s close high school friends, who also went to Middlebury, told another mutual friend in Simsbury. That friend broke the news to Lynne’s mother.
“Our family, quite honestly, never believed the rumors that (Lynne) had taken off and was hitchhiking,” Schulze said. “My mother, in particular, believed that foul play was involved from the start.”
Plenty of people reported sightings, but all the leads resulted in dead-ends.
Lynne’s father got the FBI involved for a while, and he tried to get assistance from his Connecticut state senator. Her family spent the year of 1972 searching, working with Middlebury and Vermont State Police.
“This was my senior year of high school,” Schulze said. “I spent many weekends coming up to Vermont, looking for her, following up on leads.”
But trying to track down a college student, especially an 18-year old, who in Vermont at the time was considered of legal age, was difficult.
“There was really no missing person network at the time, no Internet, no ‘America’s Most Wanted,’” Schulze said.
By the end of 1972, most of the local leads had died out, and the case went cold.
In 1994 Lynne’s parents provided DNA samples, which might have served to identify her remains, but to no avail. Two years ago, they enlisted the help of an intuitive counselor. Schulze has posted information about her sister on various missing persons Web sites, like the Jane Doe Network.
“We are very hopeful still that there is someone, perhaps not necessarily locally, who may know what happened to my sister, and may be willing to come forward under the right circumstances,” Schulze said.
Lynne’s family, which includes another sister and two younger brothers, believes all they might find at this point are her remains and the missing pieces of a 37-year-old puzzle. But they have not given up hope.
That’s the only way to survive the uncertainty of having a family member go missing, Schulze said.
“Keeping your thoughts and memories, writing everything down, lots of prayer,” she said. “Everyone in our family has gone through one side of this, with all the questioning, and come to another side where we are now, a place of peace.”

Anyone with information concerning the whereabouts of Nicholas Garza or Lynne Schulze may contact the Middlebury Police Department at 388-3191 or the Middleb.....

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Missing Since: December 10, 1971 from Middlebury, Vermont
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age: 18 years old
Height and Weight: 5'3, 115 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Light brown hair, blue eyes. Schulze had severe acne at the time of her disappearance.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Blue jeans, a maroon pullover sweater, and a brown ski parka.
Medical Conditions: Schulze may have been mildly depressed at the time of her disappearance.

Details of Disappearance

Schulze was last seen leaving her dormitory on the Middlebury College campus in Middlebury, Vermont on December 10, 1971, the first day of final exams before Christmas break started. She was on her way to take a final exam with her friends when she said she had forgotten her favorite pen and was going to go back to get it. Schulze never arrived at the exam and has never been heard from again. She left her identification, checkbook and all her personal belongings behind when she vanished. She may have been carrying $30 in cash with her. Campus security was alerted to Schulze's disappearance two days after she was last seen, but her parents were not notified for a week. Schulze had mentioned the idea of faking her own death and starting life anew prior to her disappearance, but her friends did not take her seriously. In her letters to family and friends back home she admitted she felt homesick and was considering withdrawing from school in the future, but she never indicated she was planning on dropping out of sight or leaving college before the term was over, and she did register for the next semester's classes prior to her disappearance.
There were several possible sightings of Schulze after her disappearance, but none of them were confirmed. Several people made confessions of involvement in her case, but all of their statements turned out to be false. Little evidence is available as to her fate, but Schulze's disappearance is considered suspicious. She was a freshman at Middlebury in 1971, and lived in Simsbury, Connecticut when she was not at college. Her case is unsolved.
Some agencies give the date of Schulze's disappearance as December 11, 1971.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Middlebury Police Department
802-388-3191

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Bennington Banner
Monday, January 24, 1972

PARENTS SEEK HELP IN FINDING MISSING
MIDDLEBURY COED

Middlebury/ A general missing persons broadcast has been issued by Vermont State Police for a Middlebury College coed who hasn't been heard from since Dec. 10.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto A. Shulze of B Brook Drive, Simsbury, Conn. have appealed to the public for help in locating their daughter. 17-year-old Lynne, a freshman at the Vermont college who was last seen walking on U.S. 7 south of Middlebury on Friday afternoon, Dec. 10.

Lynne disappeared without an explanation to her parents, college authorities, friends or fellow students in Battell Hall where she lived. According to Mrs. Erica Wonnacott, Dean of students at Middlebury, the girl left behind in her room all of her clothing and personal effects except what she was wearing, her checkbook and I.D. card and a hiking backpack.

There was little concern at first over the disappearance of the girl, who is described as a 5'3", 113 pound dark blonde, but without any word in over a month her parents have become alarmed despite the lack of evidence of any foul play.

Although Lynne left Middlebury shortly before first semester exams, the college doesn't attach any special significance to her timing. When she failed to show up for an English exam Dec. 14, which she had apparently studied for according to some students, the college became concerned and contacted her parents to see if she was home.

When her parents expressed surprise and concern, college authorities contacted Middlebury Village and state police and gave them a description of the girl. Since then her father has notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the event Intersate movement is involved.

Public announcement of the case has been withheld at the request of the missing girl's parents, who expressed a fear of frightening their daughter through the publicity.

Lynne was wearing, at the time of her disappearance, blue jeans, a brown nylon ski parka, navy blue pullover sweater and hiking boots.

A quiet search of the Middlebury area by Lynne's friends failed to turn up anything, Dean Wonnacott said. Following several futile trips to Middlebury by the parents, the father authorized a public announcement of his daughter's disappearance and requested help from the public in locating her.

Mrs. Wonnacott noted that although the girl may not have been living up to the scholastic record she made at Simsbury High School, she was "far from failing." College authorities also reported that there is no evidence of any mental problems of boyfriends in the case.

Lynne has two sisters, one, a student at the University of Wisconsin and the other in High School, and two brothers, age 14 and 12. Her father is a business executive and her mother a teacher.

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Well, guess maybe her sweater was Navy blue. She also had on hiking boots. Her parka was nylon. She may have had a checkbook, I.D. and a backpack.

2/7/1972 Article....

By AVRII. WESTMORELAND

On Dec. 1, 1946, an 18-yearold
Connecticut coed walked
away from a Vermont college
campus, rever to be found or
heard from again.

Twenty-five years and nine
days later, on Dec. 10, 1971, a
17-year old Connecticut coed disappeared
irom another Vermont
campus, and has yet to be located.

The disappearance during the
final month of last year of
Lynne Schulze of Simsbury, E
freshman al Middlebury college
brings sharply into focus for
many persons the mystery surrounding the disappearance
of Paula Jean Welden, 18,
of Stamford, who .vanished from
Bennington college on a Sunday
afternoon.
Ironically, the similarity in
the two instances does not stop
at this point.

Paula, at the time she left the
Bennington college campus,
was wearing a red nylon windbreaker,
blue jeans and light
sneakers.

Lynne, it was reported, was
wearing blue jeans, a brown nylon
ski parka, a navy blue pullover
sweater, and hiking boots.
Descriptions are similar, also,
with Paula described as five, five inches tall,
weighing 123 pounds and with blonde hair.
Lynne's description is five feet,
three inches tall, weight 113
pounds, dark blonde hair.

In the search for Lynne
Schulze, police have issued a
missing persons broadcast, and
several persons have notified
authorities of possibly seeing
the missing college freshman in
the area of Montpelier, Vt.

The girl was last seen walking
on Route 7, south of Middlebury.
Her father, Otto A. Schulze, recently
decided to make his
daughter's disappearance public.
Earlier, the announcemenl
had been withheld because
might be frightened by publicity

After a number of trips to the
college campus, Mr. Schulze
has asked for public help in locating
his daughter, who disappeared
without an explanation to her
parents, college authorities, friends
or fellow students.

Some said she had become dis-enchanted
with college studies,which her parents
urged her to pursue.

Officials pointed out that
Lynne left behind in her room
all of her clothing and personal
effects, but took a checkbook, an
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