Guillermo was arrested and agreed to surrender himself to Los Angeles authorities to face charges of parental kidnapping. It became clear that Mary Ann was not Nyleen, but was, in fact, Monica. Eventually, in a closet, they found a box labelled “bathroom articles.” In it was a photo album with pictures of Guillermo, Monica, and Rosemary, and Monica’s birth certificate. In December 1990, FBI agents arrived at the Kelly home with a search warrant. Initially, agents were afraid to approach Robert assuming that he was Nyleen’s kidnapper, they did not want to spook him and allow him to escape with Nyleen. The agents also reviewed her school records and discovered that they were false.
School officials contacted the FBI, who put Mary Ann and Robert under surveillance. Her teacher was especially frightened by this.Īfter the broadcast, Mary Ann’s teachers began to suspect that she was Nyleen.
He would get out of his car and look into the classroom’s windows to make sure she was there. When school would start, she would go into her classroom. School officials were especially concerned about Robert's actions when he would drop off Mary Ann at school. If they asked him for an address, he would say that they were between addresses. First of all, he was difficult to contact he never had a telephone number where he could be reached. School officials who came in contact with Robert felt that he was suspicious.
They said that Nyleen may be living in the tiny community of Point Roberts, Washington, under an assumed name.Įvery day, a twelve-year-old girl named “Mary Ann Kelly” was driven to school in Vancouver by her father, “Robert William Kelly”. One of the callers was a school official in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a result of the broadcast, hundreds of viewers called the telecenter with possible sightings of Nyleen. It was assumed that she had been abducted. On November 21, 1990, Unsolved Mysteries featured the case of four-year-old Nyleen Marshall, who vanished in 1983 while picknicking with her family near Helena, Montana. Monica (right) reunited with Rosemary and Dorian Monica was one of the first missing children featured on milk cartons in California.
Its update was featured on the Februepisode.
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