In 2009, Connie Converse found the most success of her musical career.

It came 50 years after she made the music and 30 years after she disappeared without

a trace.

Welcome to Crime Lines. Welcome to day 10 of the 12 Days of Crime Lines.

This case suggestion was sent over to me from Mark, so thank you for it. It seemed like

the perfect fit for a 12 Days episode.

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But let's go ahead and get into this case. It starts with Elizabeth Converse who was

born in New Hampshire in 1924. She wouldn't adopt the nickname Connie until she was an adult,

but since that's what she's best known as, I'm going to use it throughout for the sake

of clarity. Connie grew up with a brother a few years older than her and another a few

years younger. Their parents were strict Baptists and their father Ernest was a minister.

He left the pulpit in order to be the director of New Hampshire's chapter of the American

Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, aka the Anti-Saloon League. He was fighting the

good fight against the repeal of prohibition. Even when that fight was over and alcohol

was legal, the group became the New Hampshire Christian Civic League and he stayed on for

many more years. Connie was an intelligent child with her younger

brother calling her a genius and polymath, as she took two new subjects easily. And the

evidence backs up his claims. In the seventh grade, a poem she wrote was published in

a local paper. In high school, she made a statue that was put on display at the library.

And when she graduated high school, she was valedictorian. One eight out of the twelve

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