Girl, Missing Since Her Family Moved From California in 1969, Believed Murdered
08-31-2004 3:29 AM
By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Three-year-old Michelle Pulsifer was never seen again after her family got in their car and left California 35 years ago. But no one ever filed a missing person report _ or so much as spoke of the girl, prosecutors say.
Now, authorities will search for the girl's body, and her mother and an Illinois man have been arrested for investigation of murdering her.
The Orange County district attorney's office said Monday it spent a year looking into the case after a private investigator hired by the girl's aunt told them he could find no public record of her after July 4, 1969.
Days after Michelle Pulsifer was last seen, her family suddenly moved to Illinois from their home south of Los Angeles. Her mother, Donna J. Prentice, and Prentice's former boyfriend, James Michael Kent, insist she was left with a relative in California, investigators say.
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