This story just freaks me out so much it kept me awake last night

[graywarrior]

'There's water coming in the car. Come and get me!'

Just before Christmas, Alice Nunes, a Peabody grandmother, left home alone and never returned. Her desperate phone call to her husband was the last anyone has heard of her

PEABODY - John Nunes was watching television in his bedroom on the night of Dec. 15 when his granddaughter yelled at him to pick up the phone.

"There's water coming in the car," Alice Nunes screamed. "Come and get me, John. I'm in Lynn. Hurry!"

Then the phone went dead.

John Nunes has not heard from his wife since then.

It has been 5 1/2 months since the 57-year-old Peabody grandmother went missing, on an unseasonably mild Monday night 10 days before Christmas. Police have searched ponds, harbors, and rivers in Peabody and Lynn, but they have found no sign of Nunes or her two-year-old black Lexus.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/31/peabody_womans_desperate_call_home_is_followed_by_silence/


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Since I grew up in this area, I cannot imagine where in the hell her car ended up without anyone seeing or hearing anything.

[Shell Beau]

1. That is terrible.

I really hope they find her. Some kind of closure would be nice.

[plcdude]

2. check this out

http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=607909

[graywarrior]

3. Wow.

You know the thing that is disturbing is the time she spent in the bar. Supposedly very out of character for her.

[yewberry]

4. That is really hard to picture.

I mean, being from Peabody, she's got to know Lynn at least fairly well.

Creepy, and what a nightmare for the family.

[graywarrior]

5. There is something missing out of that story.

It doesn't sound right to me. There's pieces missing.

[latebloomer]

6. I think you're right

The whole thing seems out of character for her. There may be issues the family's not bringing up- or else she had some kind of secret.

Very sad and creepy, indeed.

[yewberry]

7. I know what you mean.

Okay, Lynn is a North Shore town...what, 15 square miles? And it's not rural. Someone knows where she is.

Why hasn't she been found? It really stretches credibility.

[graywarrior]

10. I think she went into the Saugus River which has a marina with a ramp off Ballard Street

She could have easily taken a wrong turn and when the tide is high, it could have pulled her down and out into the river which is filled with dead cars and missing bodies.

[struggle4progress]

23. Suicide can be very controlling act, with deliberate misdirection

I heard of one case where a man was found shot dead in his garage. There was no weapon. Detectives had no suspect and nothing much in the way of clues, except for an oddly located fresh nick in the wood of the garage wall. Eventually, they found the fellow had tied a heavy weight on one end of a rope, dropped the weight between the interior and exterior garage walls, and tied the other end of the weight to the gun that he used to shoot himself -- so when he let go of the gun, the weight dropped, the gun smacked the wall, and then disappeared with the weight

Maybe the lady decided to do herself in, belted a couple of drinks to boost her courage, and then drove into the water while telling her daughter and husband she was somewhere different from where she really was

Sad story, whether it's murder, suicide, or misadventure :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

8. Someone probably has her duck-taped to a wall somewhere.

:grr:

You know the rest of the story, now!

[graywarrior]

9. B***h!

LOL!

[NJmaverick]

11. I have heard of things like this happening

a small river, pond or lake near a road. A car running off with out being noticed. Horrible way to go

[Dogtown]

12. RUNN OFT

Must have been lookin' fer answers....

[graywarrior]

13. My thoughts exactly.

[Dogtown]

14. The mystery message is the tell.

"I'm drowning in Lynn" is pretty vague. Local calls here could be "I'm sinking in Lake Allatoona" or "I've been swept away by the Chattahoochee!", not "I'm awash in Cartersville!".

I think I'd have named the body of water rather than the township.

[graywarrior]

15. "There's water coming in the car," "Come and get me, John. I'm in Lynn. Hurry!

So vague and yet, so clear. Ballard Street is in Saugus, not Lynn, but the bridge around the corner on Western Ave separates Saugus from Lynn. Oouu, I just want to go there and investigate.

[Dogtown]

16. Intriguing.

I'm sure it's fascinating if you know the local geography.

Surely one of the Discovery Channels will air the in-conclusion eventually...

EDIT: for redundancy.

[graywarrior]

17. It's so extremely important that a woman I talked to yesterday who lives in MA knew nothing about it

And this woman grew up in Peabody, where the missing lady lived.

[Dogtown]

18. Apathy is eveywhere

The only real hook is the cryptic message. Well, and the zero body-count.

This sounds like the Georgia run-away bride story, or the lady 'kidnapped" by black men who turned up at Disney World.

If we only had "Amber Alerts" for middle-aged women sick of their families...

[graywarrior]

19. I think either she or hubby has a gambling problem.

I'm an expert profiling middle aged, depressed/dysfunctional/possibly abused women from Lynn/Peabody MA.

[Dogtown]

20. Very funny post

I tried to respond, but it turned into an unintended rant. I don't want to jack your thread with that, so I'll post it as a rant thread in the lounge, see if it turns into a flame-war...

[graywarrior]

21. You will need to supply a link to that.

I am flame-war link challenged (due to middle aged confusion)

[Dogtown]

22. It died a lonely death

Not as single hit.


Let's let it RIP.