Missing, presumes dead
Most people who disappear are never found again; the most common reason is that they are killed.
Psychologically, the disappearance of a person is much worse than death, because if they died you
know what happened to them, but if they disappeared it's a sadness that will never go away.
On Saturday, November 19, 1938, Marta a 9 years old child, was coming home from school with
her family. It was the last day of school and she asked her mother, whom everyone knew as Lola,
for a twenty-cent coin to buy a magazine that came out on Fridays. She left for the newsstand a few
streets away and was never seen or heard from again.
Her mother, noticing that she did not return, went out to look for her. Desperate, she went around
the neighborhood, talked to the vendor, who told her that he had sold her the magazine and that he
had seen her cross the street and walk away.
It was a special day, because the governor was expected to visit the neighborhood to inaugurate a
construction project. There were more people than usual in the area.
With the police from the ninth police station, they searched the creek and the empty lots, with no
luck. Martita was wearing a blue dress with red collar and cuffs and a white bow on her head.
The police searched the homes of people with previous convictions, abandoned premises and even
ranches in the suburbs. There was no sign of little Martita. Weeks went by and no clue appeared
that could guide the investigators.
Someone claimed to have seen the girl with a man and a bag leaving the village. Legend has it that
this man kidnaps children who are bad, and this is how the famous story of the bogeyman was
created in the village.
Based on a real story: “Historias Innecesarias: Martita Stutz - MISTERIO argentino SIN resolver” YouTube channel:
Damián Kuc