Marcella Krulce was 30 when she disappeared from Pittsburgh. The last confirmed sighting was the evening of Thursday, November 19, 1959, at the Martinique Apartments restaurant on Baum Boulevard, where she lived on the fifth floor during the week while working as a secretary for the United Fund of Allegheny County. She kept a regular routine, spending weekends with her mother in Strabane Township, and failed to report to work on Friday, November 20 — a departure from her dependable habits that prompted concern.

Her brother, Joseph Krulce, reported her missing to the Pittsburgh Police Missing Persons Bureau about a week after she was last seen. Marcella was insulin-dependent; a search of her apartment turned up her clothes, jewelry, insulin, and syringes undisturbed, a fact that investigators and family noted as making a voluntary departure unlikely. At the time she vanished she was believed to be wearing a black coat and black shoes.

The investigation produced no suspects or solid leads and went cold. The Martinique Apartments saw other tragic events around that period, but police did not officially link them to Marcella’s case. In 2018 human remains found in Garfield were initially thought to be hers but were later identified as another person’s. Does anyone have memories of Marcella, the Martinique Apartments in 1959, or information that could help clarify what happened?