Paper: St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
Title: MAN HOPES TV SHOW LEADS TO SISTER
Author: BYLINE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: August 22, 1995
Section: Metro
Page: 3B

Jerry Traxler hopes a network television show's segment on the mysterious
disappearance of his sister three years ago will bring some clues about her
fate.

Traxler, president of Dunn County Mutual Insurance, is looking forward to the
segment planned next spring on ``Unsolved Mysteries'' on the April 9, 1992,
disappearance of Jean Marie Moore.Moore and her longtime fiance, Al Henderson, a
real-estate broker, were in Laughlin, Nev., that day to gamble. They lived in
Apple Valley, Calif.

Henderson told police that he had dropped off Moore at the Flamingo Hotel to
play the slot machines. He said that when he went back to look for her, she was
gone, although their car was still there.

Henderson told police that Moore had $600 to $700 with her at the time.

``There's a very slim chance she's alive,'' Traxler said. ``We're hoping someone
will recognize something and call. Then we won't have to wonder what happened.
Not knowing is harder than knowing.''

Traxler went searching last year with a psychic, a sheriff's investigator, a
deputy coroner and dogs in an effort to find her body.

The last time Traxler saw Moore was in the summer of 1991 when she vacationed in
Menomonie with Henderson. The brother and sister visited their father, Henry, in
a Colfax nursing home.

Author: BYLINE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Section: Metro
Page: 3B

Copyright (c) 1995 St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Paper: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
Title: MISSING WOMAN TO BE TV SUBJECT
Date: August 22, 1995
Section: Local/Wisconsin
Page: 3B

Jerry Traxler hopes a network television show segment on the mysterious
disappearance of his sister three years ago will bring some clues as to what
happened to her.

Traxler, president of Dunn County Mutual Insurance, is looking forward to the
segment planned next spring on ``Unsolved Mysteries'' on the April 9, 1992,
disappearance of Jean Marie Moore.Moore, who lived in Apple Valley, Calif.,
disappeared while on a vacation to Laughlin, Nev., with her fiance.

``There's a very slim chance she's alive,'' Traxler said. ``We're hoping someone
will recognize something and call.''

The idea of presenting the case on television came about after a police
investigator met with the producer of ``Unsolved Mysteries'' and the case came
up, Traxler said.

Section: Local/Wisconsin
Page: 3B

Copyright (c) 1995 Wisconsin State Journal

Thanks - I'm suprised you found anything about this one. I just can't figure out what could have happened to her. I'm probably in the minority here but I don't think the fiance did anything to her. He seemed like such a sweet old man plus what motive would he have had? He had just proposed to her. He seemed frail enough also that I think if he did do it he would have trouble disposing of a body. Maybe when he dropped her off and drove away someone else put her into another car and abducted her. Stranger things have happened. If they caught her off guard she may not have screamed or drew attention to herself and that would explain why she wasn't on the surveillance video or why no one noticed anything out of the ordinary in the parking lot.

There's only one problem with your theory, crystaldawn. Al told the police that he went into the casino and gave Jean the car keys. He then went outside to find a taxi and when he couldn't, he went back into the casino to look for Jean. The tapes don't show Jean in the casino at all that day... Something doesn't add up and the story makes Al look like a liar.

I think that UM left out a lot of pertinent info out in this case. All I recall RS saying is that Jean wasn't found on the slot machine that was her favorite. Did Al say he actually saw her on her favorite slot machine or just that was where he figured she would go? Maybe she was accosted before she could get to the slot machine. I was curious myself if any of the other surveillance picked her up. Surely if she wasn't found on ANY of the cameras that day UM would have mentioned that so that Al Henderson would have looked guilty. I certainly don't think Al Henderson killed her. He seemed very genuine and truthful in the interview plus there is absolutely no motive. They weren't even married yet, no insurance. Lets say even if in a fit of rage he did something that caused her death, there was already a witness that put them in Laughlin and he probably would have been too old and frail to dispose of her body by himself. I really can't think what in the world could have happened to her though. Remember this is a casino. Maybe someone was desperate for money and saw that she had a lot and abducted her out of the view of the cameras. I'm sure not every inch of the casino is on surveillance. She could have been on her way to a restroom in the back or something and there wouldn't have necessarily been any witnesses. I know its a pretty out there theory but it makes as much sense as anything else I can think of.

You've made some good points. :) The only thing is: we don't know that there was no motive. She could have broken things off with him while they were at the hotel, which caused him to become angry and kill her. It probably didn't happen that way, but you never know. Her kids were saying that Al was always putting Jean down. Maybe she got tired of the way he treated her?

However, what you said makes good sense. If she had that much money on her, it's possible that someone grabbed her.

i hate this case cos its baffling..it bothers me that the camera evidence doesn't support Al's statements of what happened but he seems like a sweet old man and I hate believing he could do this...but her children do seem really sure he had something to do with it...and his story is fishy, one of the things that bothered me most is who leaves all those valuable rings and trinkets in a hotel room? someone close to her had to harm her and take those things of value off, as her friends said she never took off her engagement ring

I would like to know his motive other than the fact that her children said he could be quite verbally abusive to their mom in public, and why his statements so much are in conflict with the security camera's in the casino and why they even split up in the first place to gamble makes no sense