When 23-year-old Wilma Nissen stopped communicating with her various foster families, they hoped she found a better life somewhere else.

But the truth was she was a Jane Doe, far from home, and it would take diligent police work

and the daughter she left behind to start putting the pieces together. Now, what they need are more

leads. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello, I to crime lines.

This case is one that was recommended to me by another podcaster, Nina of the already gone podcast.

Not only did she recommend the case to me, she has also covered it, and she sent me

the base research done by Charity Dodd, so I want to thank both of them for that.

And a huge thanks to Chrissy, the daughter of Wilmanesson, who took time out of her day to talk

to me, and then after we talked, out of her day to talk to me. And then, after we talked,

she went over the entire script to make sure that what I'm putting out there is accurate.

We are going to start with Wilma June Nissen, who was born on October 19, 1954, to June and

Charles Nissen. They were in their early 20s when she was born and she was

the first of three daughters. When Wilma was about a year and a half old, according to

find a grave, Charles and June had a second daughter who did not survive. And then in early

1959, their third daughter, Mona, was born.

Mona was deaf and she could not speak, so Wilma really had to look out for her,

especially after their mom, June, left the family when Wilma was only eight and Mona was just

four. For some reason, Charles had neither of the girls in school

and opted instead to lock them in a bedroom closet when he had to go to work. It wasn't long

after June left that Charles lost that job, and then the three of them were living in the car. Charles would make Mona,

who was just five or six at the time, stay locked in the trunk. Wilma was nine, and Charles would

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