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Don’t be making any assumptions.

“Breakfast,” Webb called from the kitchen.

Switching off her tablet, Pierce joined her husband and son at the table. She was happy to be with her men, absorbing the moment, hearing what they had going on today.

“Math test,” Ethan said.

“Are you ready?” Pierce asked.

He gave her a thumbs-up. “I studied.”

She turned to Webb, wanting to know what he was doing today.

“Going to help Raylon restore his old Dodge pickup.”

Finishing her toast, Pierce said she was getting back to the case, leaving out today’s first order of business: attending the autopsy of Anna Catherine Shaw.

Big Skyline Library Network Data Services-Montana News Archives 1994

Family of Missing Massachusetts Couple Fear Worst

TOM GANNON

World Press Alliance 25 August 1994

Officials in Boston have asked police across the western US to help locate Lydia Worrell, 67, and Frank Worrell, 68, a retired couple making a cross-country dream trip to the West Coast in their motorhome.

The Worrells have been reported missing by their son, Phil Worrell of Springfield, Mass., who hasn’t heard from his parents in over two weeks.

“We feel something’s wrong, that something happened, somewhere,” Worrell, 42, told theBoston Globe.

He said his dad, Frank Worrell, a retired bus mechanic with Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and his mom, Lydia Worrell, a retired bank teller, left their South Boston home in late July.

“They talked about taking this trip for years.”

Worrell said his parents were looking forward to seeing landmarks across the country on their way to visiting their daughter and her family in Spokane, Washington, then driving along the west coast to see their son and his family in California.

“Once a day, every day, my mom, or my dad, would call one of us to let us know where they were, where they were headed and that all was well.”

Worrell said the last time the family heard from the couple was August 4. They called from Great Falls, Montana, and were ready to start driving through the mountains, across Idaho and into Spokane.

“Since the call from Great Falls, none of us has heard a word,” Worrell said. “We’re a big loving family. My parents have six kids and eleven grandchildren. Every day they’d call from campgrounds or gas stations because they didn’t have a mobile phone. But they go from calling one of us each day to absolute silence? We’re sick with worry.”

Worrell and his brothers and sisters have called police, hospitals, motels and campgrounds, and even contacted trucking companies to ask drivers traveling along the route their parents would have taken to check for any accidents, incidents or sightings. He said his family is preparing to fly to Montana to start searching for their parents.

“We know with hundreds of miles to cover it’s like a needle in a haystack, but we’re not giving up until we find them.”

The couple’s last known credit card transaction was for gas and food at a gas station near Missoula, Montana, on August 4. But investigators found no record of the missing couple making phone calls or using their bank or credit cards beyond that date.

“We tracked their credit and bank card use across the country, but it stops cold at Missoula,” said Sgt. Whit Newsom of the Boston police. “We’ve issued missing person alerts, along with details and photos of the Worrells to every police agency in the western US and the FBI.”

The couple is driving a 1992 Chevrolet Class C 21-foot motorhome with Massachusetts license plate AAA02AX

Police are urging anyone with information about the couple’s whereabouts to contact their local law enforcement agency.

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