The Mysterious Disappearance of Jean Spangler & Unsolved Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold #40

On October 7, 1949, aspiring Hollywood actress Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter goodbye and told her sister-in-law she was going to meet her ex-husband to talk about his late child support payment. In a twist straight from a L.A. noir novel, she walked out the door and was never seen again.

The last person to see her alive was a clerk in the local store near her home. She stood outside, he said, like she was waiting for someone to pick her up. When the actress never returned home, Spangler’s sister-in-law, Sophie, filed a police report the very next day.

The investigation immediately turned to Spangler’s ex-husband, a man named Dexter Benner. The two had an acrimonious divorce and ruthless custody battle over their daughter, Christine. But Dexter, who by that time had remarried, claimed to have been at home that evening with his wife Lynn. He said he didn’t know anything about a meeting and hadn’t spoken to Spangler in nearly two years

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