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Paula Welden and Missing Students

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eldritchhobbit

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On December 1, 1946, sophomore Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden vanished. Her disappearance remains an unsolved mystery.

I’m currently working on a book project that involves the Welden case. Today it feels especially important to say her name.

Note: If anyone would like a (very brief!) peek into my current book project, here is a video of my presentation “Missing Students and Their Fictional Afterlives: True Crime, Crime Fiction, and Dark Academia.“ I gave this talk earlier this year at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining Crime in Popular Culture” conference.

This image of Paula Jean Welden (a black-and-white portrait of a young woman in her late teens) was circulated in missing person flyers and newspapers at the time of her disappearance in 1946. She is wearing a sweater with a collared shirt and necklace, sitting with one arm beside/behind her on the back of the sofa, regarding the photographer.ALT
The Missing Person flyer circulated after Paula Welden's disappearance on December 1, 1946, including photos and a writing sample of hers, as well as descriptions of her and instructions on where to report information about her disappearance and/or whereabouts.ALT

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