Former Houston Chronicle reporter St. John Barned-Smith spent months investigating the...
Here are four things I learned about both her – and myself – in doing the reporting and writing:My aunt, Frances St. John Smith, disappeared from Smith College on Jan. 13, 1928. One of her grief-stricken classmates, Anne Morrow, was wracked by guilt for not checking in with Frances in the weeks before she went missing.
She married fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, in May 1929.infant was kidnapped and murdered in what was dubbed “the crime of the century.”In October, I traveled to Smith College to research the tragedy in the school’s archives.
Front page of The Boston Globe's Jan. 16, 1928 edition. The lead story was of the disappearance of Frances St. John Smith, who vanished from campus several days previously.It was surprising, and a little overwhelming.in my research about missing-persons cases in Texas and found it very helpful. When I used it in the research story about my aunt, it turned up more than 5,000 stories.
But I was also acutely aware that now, Frances’ case would be a textbook example of what veteran journalist Gwen Ifill termed
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