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headed the investigation. Police followed up on thousands of leads and questioned between 30 and 40 suspects over the years. Three days after her disappearance, a police dog traced her scent to the apartment of Ester
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in 1984 to coordinate departments involved in missing-persons cases. The center credits the Gotlib case with increasing national awareness of missing and abducted children and revolutionizing how missing-child cases are handled. One new technique that came out of the investigation was the use of
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to force her parents to return to the Soviet Union. Both the FBI and the Gotlib family had dismissed this theory. Another theory was that she had left voluntarily after having trouble adapting to life in the United States. Investigators and her family dismissed this as well, saying she gave no
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on a medical pardon, where he was serving time for burglary and rape. That case was similar to the Gotlib case by the fact the victim was a 13-year-old girl having red hair. Police believe that Oakley followed Gotlib to the
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still listed the disappearance as an open case. Nevertheless, it was considered a cold case due to the amount of time that had passed. The investigation documents fill four filing cabinets.
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According to a man who had once served time in a
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been a suspect since the initial disappearance in 1983 — had possibly been responsible for the young girl's disappearance. Oakley died in
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indications of anxiety prior to the disappearance, and if she had run away voluntarily she likely would have taken some money or possessions, and made contact eventually.
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and eventually provided a map of the burial site, but after a thorough investigation police found no physical evidence to verify his claim.
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Gotlib had never visited the apartment, and after a thorough investigation of her family, police concluded the dog had been in error.
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who disappeared at the age of 12 from the premises of a
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