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Martha Sue Shelton










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Martha, approximately 1971; 1967 Ford Galaxie




Date reported missing : 05/21/1971

Missing location (approx) :
Corbin, Kentucky
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 27 years old
Height / Weight : 5'2 - 5'4, 125 - 135 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A wedding band and a braided silver ring set with a blue stone.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Light brown hair, blue eyes. Martha goes by her middle name, Sue, and most accounts refer to her by that name. She had natural light-colored highlights in her hair at the time of her disappearance.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Sue and her husband, Claude Shelton, were last seen in Corbin, Kentucky on May 21, 1971. They put their three children to bed at their home in Gerry's Trailer Park on 18th Street, then drove away in their white 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 with the Kentucky license plate number 937 944. Photographs of the vehicle are posted with this case summary.
The Sheltons may have been en route to the Kings truck stop five miles away, but no one remembers seeing them that night. They have never been heard from again and their car has never been recovered. Approximately $600 in cash may have also vanished from their home at the same time they did.
It would be uncharacteristic of the Sheltons to abandon their children, who were subsequently raised by their grandmother. Foul play is suspected in their disappearances, which remain unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Kentucky State Police
606-878-6622



September 2021 updates and sources

Kentucky State Police
Unsolved in the News
WKYT 27
WBIR
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October 12, 2004. June 20, 2009; Age at the time of disappearance: , height, weight and Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added, name, Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.