https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388290/audrey-backeberg-missing-wisconsin-woman-found another article about her with a couple more details. her ex husband died in 2006, at least.
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What happened to the two kids though? That's an angle that needs examining...
She fled with the babysitter, did they bring the kids?
Alive and well because she ditched that bitch of a husband! Good for her!
What happened to the babysitter?
The couple's 14-year-old babysitter told police she and Ms Backeberg then hitchhiked to Madison, Wisconsin's state capital, and from there caught a bus to Indianapolis, Indiana, about 300 miles (480km) away.
The babysitter then became nervous and wanted to return home, but Ms Backeberg refused and was last seen walking away from the bus stop.
She's still there to this day, doomed to sit on babies forever while waiting for a train that'll never come.
But why did she go with her in the first place? What about the kids, did they go with her? These are the drama elements at the beginning of a movie and now we'll never know.
Why did the 14 year old babysitter escape with the abused 20 year old mother of two who married at age 15?
I think I have a pretty good idea.
I’m assuming she went back since she was telling police this at the time
The group said that days before she went missing, Ms Backeberg, now 82, had filed a criminal complaint against her husband, whom she had married at the age of 15, alleging he had beaten her and threatened to kill her.
Glad she escaped. Sucks that in 1962 "disappearing completely" was the only option she saw.
I said this in another post on the subject. The woman fled her abusive husband before he killed her, cop finds her 60 years later and says "yep. Guess she just has a free spirit!"
Fuck.