Grace M. (Canto) Reapp

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Grace M. (Canto) Reapp




Grace Marie Canto Reapp
Missing since June 6, 1978 from Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics
•Date Of Birth: October 1, 1945
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 32 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7; 190 pounds
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes.
•Marks, Scars: Scar on abdomen.


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Circumstances of Disappearance
Grace disappeared under suspicious circumstances with her daughter, Grace Noel Reapp (nickname "Gracie") on June 6, 1978 from her residence located on Hanley Lane, Jericho, Vermont.
Her husband, Michael Reapp, reported them missing on June 11. He filed for divorce from Grace on June 16, citing desertion and intolerable severity. Grace and Michael have two older sons, both of whom were in elementary school at the time.
Authorities believed that Grace and Gracie's disappearances were extremely suspicious from the onset of their investigation. Reapp never contacted her family, never touched her bank account, never used her Social Security number.

Michael admitted that he had been involved in several extramarital affairs while married to Grace. Michael eventually married one of the women he was involved with while married to Grace. He moved his new wife and two sons to Florida shortly thereafter.

Michael Reapp admitted to detectives that his relationship with Grace was physical at times, but that he figured that she (Grace) just took her daughter (Gracie) and left him and the boys. Michael Reapp advised that he had always believed that Grace was living somewhere with her family members.

Investigators reclassified Grace and Gracie's disappearances as homicides in 1996 and questioned Michael once again about any knowledge he may have had regarding the cases. Michael fled from his Florida home alone in late 1996 upon learning about the continuing investigation. His truck was discovered abandoned at an airport in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1996; he has never been seen again. Authorities are searching for Michael as a person of interest in order to continue questioning him regarding Grace and Gracie's cases.

Police have returned to the Jericho property 14 times since 1978, and employed ground penetration radar and conducted three digs between 1996 and 2000 at the Jericho homestead where the Reapp family once lived.

Michael Eugene Reapp, the prime suspect in the murder of Grace and Gracie, killed himself following a police chase in Yuma, Arizona in January 1997.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning Grace's whereabouts, please contact:
Vermont State Police
Det. Sgt. Gerald H. Charboneau
802-524-5993
Email
You may remain anonymous when submitting information to any agency.

NamUs MP# 4031


NCIC Number: M813287569
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Vermont Department Of Public Safety
What Happened to Grace & Little Gracie?
Burlington Free Press - 10/30/05
NamUs
WPTZ

www.doenetwork.org/

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What happened to Grace and Lil Gracie

www.julianawoodworth.com/grace/grace.html

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Grace Reapp ~LIttle Gracie Reapp Vermont USA

June 6, 1978
Grace and 'Little' Gracie Noel Reapp
Vanished Without A Trace
Grace Canto Reapp and her 5 year old daughter, Grace Noel 'Gracie' Reapp vanished from their home in Jericho, Vermont without a trace on June 6, 1978.
'Little' Gracie's two brothers were attending a local elementary school on that same day.

HAVE YOU SEEN
MICHAEL EUGENE REAPP
WANTED FOR QUESTIONING
Michael Eugene Reapp, former husband and the Father of this family? He's been away for years! Very soon after Grace and Little Gracie vanished HE filed for a divorce.
*(link to photos at Jericho Police)
www.dps.state.vt.us/vsp/jericho_disappear.html

Someone knows... and YOU might be the person that holds the key to unlock this mystery and YOU
may be able to help or know someone that can help in bringing closure for their families. Urgeing you to send this information to everyone in your address book. Their family desperately seeking information that will lead them to Grace and Little Gracie.

Please, view the following web sites of Grace and Little Gracie Reapp for further information, timeline and photos.

www.geocities.com/Wellesley/5239/Grace.html

View photos of Michael Eugene Reapp taken in 1995
Please click on the Jericho, State of Vermont Police Dept.
www.dps.state.vt.us/vsp/jericho_disappear.html

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23 Years Of Searching Sister Will Never Give Up

Woman searches for clues to sister 23 years
after disappearance
By Emily Stone
Free Press Staff Writer

Juliana Woodworth traveled to Vermont this week to find her sister.

She was looking for a grave.

Grace Reapp disappeared with her 5-year-old daughter, Gracie, from their Jericho home 23 years ago today. They left no trace -- Reapp never contacted her family, never touched her bank account, never used her Social Security number. Police are treating the case as a homicide.

Reapp's husband, Michael, though never accused of wrongdoing, has acted suspiciously since the disappearance. In 1996, shortly after learning the police were investigating the case as a homicide, Michael Reapp disappeared. Police list him as missing.

Woodworth is convinced her sister and niece are dead. She still wants answers. Mostly, she wants to find their bodies.

"I want to know where they are so I can give them a Christian burial and I can put flowers in front of them," Woodworth, 58, said Tuesday from her home in Connecticut. She travels to Vermont about twice a year, she said, though she's in contact with the Vermont State Police almost every week.

Woodworth just returned home from a two-day visit to Vermont. She didn't find her sister, but she continues to believe they are likely buried somewhere on the 10-acre lot where Reapp and her husband lived.

Police have searched the property on a quiet dirt road at least four times, using excavators, ground-penetrating radar and cadaver-sniffing dogs. They've found nothing. For this week's visit, Woodworth brought a psychic she's been working with. The woman stood across the road from the property and concentrated on Reapp.

Woodworth, who says she's "on the fence" about psychics' abilities, said she has had good luck with this woman.

"She feels that the bodies are still on the property," Woodworth said. She hopes the police decide to search the property again.

"I never give up," she said.

Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Gerald Charboneau, who has worked on the case since 1994, would not comment on specifics because it is an ongoing investigation. He said he gets "sporadic" calls about it.

A police Web site on the case says, "the consensus of opinion is that their disappearance is the result of foul play, and that Grace and Gracie Reapp are dead."

Reapp was 32 on June 6, 1978, the day she and Gracie disappeared. Her two sons, 11-year-old Brian and 8-year-old Patrick, were at Jericho Elementary School. Michael Reapp said he discovered them missing when he came home from work as an air traffic controller at the Burlington International Airport. He said she left a note on the medicine chest, but police never found it.

Five days later, Michael Reapp reported his wife and daughter missing. Five days after that, he filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion and intolerable severity. He remarried about a year later. He told his sons their mother and sister were living with family, a story they believed until Woodworth was able to contact them as adults, she said.

Michael Reapp and his family moved to Florida in 1983. In 1996, Vermont State Police detectives interviewed Reapp and told him the case was being treated as a homicide. He admitted he and Reapp had marital problems and that he had had affairs, but said he always thought his wife was living with family.

About a month later, Michael Reapp was contacted by a television reporter who told him police were digging on his former property. Four days later, he disappeared. His pickup was found abandoned at the New Orleans airport a couple of months later. There's been no sign of him since.

"He's suspicious as hell," Woodworth said. Michael Reapp is listed as a missing person. Woodworth said she believes he's still alive.

Woodworth last spoke to her only sister about a week before she disappeared. A couple of weeks later, Woodworth called Reapp to thank her for an antique sled Reapp had given her as a gift. Michael Reapp answered the phone and told Woodworth her sister had left.

Woodworth immediately started looking for Reapp. She placed a classified ad in the paper, and distributed fliers in Vermont and surrounding states. She has interviewed Reapp's friends, neighbors, even her mailman, looking for clues. Brian Reapp was hypnotized to see if he remembered anything. Woodworth has consulted other psychics. She has an extensive Web site, with a timeline on the case and pictures of Grace and Gracie.

"There wasn't much that I didn't do," Woodworth said, explaining that she still hopes something jogs a memory and a vital clue is discovered. "Somebody out there has got to know something."

For Woodworth, searching for her sister is a daily activity. Between working part time as a computer consultant, she talks with police, checks her Web site daily for e-mails and organizes the reams of papers, letters and court documents she keeps in boxes and binders.

One of those papers is a hand-drawn map Reapp made so her sister could find her way to the Jericho home for a visit. Woodworth never used the map while her sister was at home, but it's how she found the house after Reapp disappeared.

She has a picture of her and her sister as teen-agers, one in her bedroom and one in the kitchen, in a frame that says "sisters" on it. She looks at it every day.

"I look at her picture and say where the hell are you?" Woodworth said. "That's what I did yesterday (in Vermont). I said, 'Where are you? Talk to me.'"

Contact Emily Stone at 660-1898 or
[e-mail]

www.burlingtonfreepress.com

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Juliana, sister and aunt of Grace Canto Reapp and Little Gracie Reapp has never given up finding answers...and she wont
The reporters have just left here and the story wil be on NECN tonight at 8 PM and 9 PM June 23, 2006 Friday

www.boston.com/news/necn/

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Decades With No Justice For Vermont Community

Michael Eugene Reapp



Cops say that for decades, Michael Reapp has gotten away with the murder of his wife, Grace, and 5-year-old daughter, Gracie. But since no bodies had been found, it was hard for authorities to get a warrant for Reapp's arrest. But now, after years of investigating, they've got one and they're on the hunt for a man who's spent years avoiding the law.

On June 7, 1978, police in Jericho, Vt., received a call from Reapp, who claimed that his wife and daughter were missing from their home. He also told them that Grace left a note, saying that she was leaving him and that he shouldn't go after her.

But cops didn't buy it. Their investigations revealed that Reapp had been having an extramarital affair and wanted out of his marriage with Grace. Although they didn't find any bodies, police believed that Grace and Gracie are dead -- and that Reapp murdered them himself.

After 13 years of marriage, Reapp allegedly killed Grace, his wife.

Gracie was just 5-years-old when cops say she was murdered by her father.

Grace's body has not been found.



Suspect Turns Up Dead 32 Years Later
The Jericho, Vt., community and the Canto family had been searching for three decades for answers about the disappearance of a young woman and her daughter. In 1978, police believed that the two were murdered and their bodies were hidden by Michael Reapp -- their husband and father. Now, the prime suspect has been found dead.



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