Jean Elizabeth Spangler, a 26-year-old actress and dancer, vanished from Los Angeles on October 7, 1949. She left her Wilshire district home about 5:00 p.m., telling her sister-in-law Sophie she planned to meet her ex-husband Dexter Benner about a child support payment before going to a night film shoot. Later that evening she phoned to say she would be working the full eight hours and probably would not be home, but studios reported no record of her on any production that night.

The last confirmed sighting was around 6:00 p.m. at a grocery store a few blocks from her home, where a clerk said she looked as if she were waiting for someone. Two days later her purse turned up near the Fern Dell entrance to Griffith Park, about 5.5 miles from her home; one strap was torn and inside was an unfinished note to a Kirk that read: Kirk: Can’t wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. The note prompted publicity and actor Kirk Douglas contacted police to clear his name; he told them he was in Palm Springs and investigators were satisfied.

Investigators pursued multiple theories.

Does anyone have memories, documents, or leads about Spangler’s last known movements, her contacts in 1949, or the people named in her purse note?