On December 1st, 1946, Paula Jean Welden disappeared. It had been known that she went on a walk the day before, but when she didn’t come home, her roomate began to worry and she informed the school. The story behind her disappearance is still unsolved and we have learned very little about what really happened to her, but new theories such as witness, testimony, and what we have found may provide clues. Aside from this, it seemed that she has vanished into thin air. To begin with, here were many theories on who was responsible for Paula’s disappearance, but one of the main suspects is William Archibald Welden, Paula’s father. According to www.bennington banner.com, “This led some to point to Welden as the prime suspect in his daughter's disappearance, a theory made even more compelling by the facts surrounding the week before Paula's disappearance. Apparently, Paula was expected to go home to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, but she called her parents and told them that she would be staying in Bennington. Apparently, according to Johnson, her roommate, she and her father had had a falling-out not long before her disappearance.” It was unknown what the …show more content…
According to www.reddit.com, “...A lumberjack came forward saying he knew where her body was buried. After being questioned, he eventually admitted making it up for publicity.” To many, this was quite suspicious and they thought that he might have gotten nervous when being questioned and took the easy way out and lying about what he knew. Another theory from www.historicmysteries.com says, “Investigators found a man who stated that he had seen Paula soon before her disappearance. This young man became a suspect when he told differing stories about where he had spent the evening.” Unfortunately, investigators didn’t have enough evidence to prove that he was guilty of the disappearance of