A Valentine’s Day That Never Came Susan Roop’s Gauley Morning, Frozen in 1979

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Susan Roop’s Gauley Morning, Frozen in 1979

A name that still echoes in Gauley

Susan Faye Roop—known to many as “Sue” —is at the center of a West Virginia missing-persons case that has endured for decades. She was 29 years old when she vanished, and she has been classified as an endangered missing person. Her disappearance is tied to the Gauley area, with reporting that places her last known day at her home in Bentree, West Virginia—close enough to Gauley that the case has long been associated with that community.

The morning everything narrowed to a single note

On February 12, 1979, Sue did something that would become one of the most repeated details in every account of her disappearance: she left a note for her three children. The note instructed them to go to a neighbor’s residence if she wasn’t home by the time they returned from school. It reads, in hindsight, like a mother’s practical contingency plan—ordinary on its face, but haunting because she never came back to explain it....Read More

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