{"id":382877,"date":"2021-12-18T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T12:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/was-vanished-heiress-marcia-moore-murdered-or-dematerialized\/"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T12:27:19","slug":"was-vanished-heiress-marcia-moore-murdered-or-dematerialized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/was-vanished-heiress-marcia-moore-murdered-or-dematerialized\/","title":{"rendered":"#Was vanished heiress Marcia Moore murdered \u2014 or \u2018dematerialized\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Was vanished heiress Marcia Moore murdered \u2014 or \u2018dematerialized\u2019?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Marcia Moore dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared without a trace on a bitterly cold night in January 1979, her family received several \u201cbulletins\u201d from psychics across the country. One of them said that the heiress to the Sheraton Hotel fortune was \u201cstuck in the fourth plane in the 12th dimension\u201d and having trouble getting out.<\/p>\n<p>At the dawn of the New Age movement in the 1970s \u2014 when many were experimenting with crystals, astrology and personal transformation \u2014 the explanation seemed oddly credible to Marcia\u2019s circle of friends. The missing 50-year-old was a yoga teacher and astrologer of some renown who had spent time at an ashram in India and written six books, including one on reincarnation. With her neatly cut bangs, the lithe Radcliffe College graduate believed she shared a past life with Cleopatra. <\/p>\n<p>Before her disappearance from her home in Seattle, Marcia had been experimenting with ketamine, a hallucinogenic drug, and brainstorming a project to \u201cdematerialize\u201d herself, according to Hollywood writer and director Elisabeth Bentley, who is working on a limited documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> about Moore\u2019s life. The heiress\u2019 story is also told in  \u201cDematerialized: The Mysterious Disappearance of Marcia Moore\u201d (Post Hill Press), by Joseph and Marina DiSomma, out now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Marcia Moore as a child.\" class=\"wp-image-20512963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>From an early age, Moore was obsessed with the occult and reincarnation. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The hocus-pocus, along with her conservative family\u2019s embarrassment over Marcia\u2019s obsession with New Age philosophies, as well as her own marital history \u2014 Marcia was on her fourth husband when she disappeared \u2014 all worked to derail the investigation into her whereabouts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things Marcia did was mortifying for the family,\u201d said Bentley, who is friends with Marcia\u2019s niece, Elizabeth. \u201cIf she were alive today, she would have been an Oprah-like person. She was one of the first to bring yoga to this country, and likely the first person to use the phrase \u2018Age of Aquarius.\u2019 Some of her conclusions have also been proven right. She intuited things that are being studied more rigorously, such as the use of hallucinogenic treatments for PTSD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Marcia Moore may have been <em>too<\/em> ahead of her time \u2014 and the embarrassment her powerful family felt would ultimately benefit her presumed killer. In 1981, when Marcia\u2019s remains were finally discovered near her home, the trail had already gone cold.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-yoga.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Marcia Moore demonstrating a yoga posture.\" class=\"wp-image-20512864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-yoga.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-yoga.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-yoga.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-yoga.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Marcia Moore \u201cmortified\u201d her family when her yoga enthusiasm turned to dabbling in hallucinogens.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Boston Public Library<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer story fades with each passing year,\u201d write the DiSommas, a husband-and-wife investigation team who spent years piecing together the story of Marcia Moore after Marina DiSomma discovered her books in a garage and became fascinated with her story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery drive by a Sheraton hotel is a reminder of how few people know the unusual, hidden story of Marcia and the Moore family,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia Sheldon Moore was born on May 22, 1928, the only daughter of  Sheraton Hotel chain founder Robert Lowell Moore and his wife, Eleanor Turner Moore, in Cambridge, Mass. The clan could trace their lineage to the 1600s, and Marcia and her three brothers were raised in a Colonial mansion on a two-acre estate in tony Concord. According to the DiSommas, the Moore family home was \u201ccomplete with servants\u2019 quarters, Japanese garden, grape arbor, raspberry patch and apple orchard,\u201d and there was also a summer home on Cuttyhunk Island, west of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Marcia Moore and Simons Roof on their wedding day.\" class=\"wp-image-20512950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Moore\u2019s first husband was struggling writer Simons Roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although Robert Moore had dabbled in Theosophy, a 19th-century spiritual movement that dictated that knowledge of God could be achieved through meditation and transcendence, the patrician family discouraged the same kind of interests in Marcia. Her mother favored eldest son Robin, who would achieve global fame in 1969 with the release of his book, \u201cThe French Connection,\u201d which inspired the Best Picture winner at the 1972 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>From an early age, Marcia was obsessed with the occult and reincarnation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was often misunderstood and far ahead of her time in fearlessly exploring metaphysics with new, sometimes controversial ideas,\u201d write the DiSommas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/spiritual-books-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Moore wrote books on spirituality, astrology and reincarnation.\" class=\"wp-image-20519853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/spiritual-books-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/spiritual-books-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/spiritual-books-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Moore wrote books on spirituality, astrology and reincarnation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly after abandoning her studies at Radcliffe after her freshman year (she would complete her degree a decade later), Marcia married her first husband, a struggling writer named Simons Roof. They took off to India for a year in 1955, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing around with their three young children as Marcia studied yoga and was blessed by the Dalai Lama.  <\/p>\n<p>After their return to the US, Marcia began to blossom as a writer and yoga instructor, often turning her front lawn into an open-air Hatha yoga studio. But her marriage was falling apart, and in 1962, Marcia and Roof filed for divorce. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignleft is-style-default\">\n<blockquote><p>\u2018If she were alive today, she would be an Oprah-like person.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><cite>Hollywood director Elisabeth Bentley, who is working on a documentary series about Moore\u2019s life.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Marcia took on a series of lovers before marrying her second husband, a 21-year-old student named Louis Acker, whom she had met through her astrology circle. The couple \u201caffirmed the engagement based predominantly on their compatible astrological charts,\u201d according to the DiSommas. Acker, a towering redhead, was 12 years her junior, and although the couple happily practiced yoga and lectured on astrology together, the marriage was over after three years. <\/p>\n<p>Weeks after divorcing Acker, Marcia wed Mark Douglas, a Korean War veteran and grifter she claimed to have met in a previous life. He was also, according to \u201cDematerialized,\u201d a hustler jailed for failure to pay child support for his two kids from a previous relationship. Douglas saw potential in Marcia, and encouraged her to write books. He started a publishing company and opened a health-food store in York Harbor, Maine, where she could sell her wares. <\/p>\n<p>He also soon began to control much of Marcia\u2019s income from trust funds and stock that she held in her family\u2019s hotel company. When she walked out on him in 1966 after suffering a black eye, among other physical injuries,  Douglas had already cashed in more than $120,000 worth of Marcia\u2019s stock as well as taking over her mansion, the store and an apartment they had owned together, according to \u201cDematerialized.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/robin-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Rogin Moore\" class=\"wp-image-20512999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/robin-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/robin-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/robin-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/robin-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Marcia\u2019s brother, Rogin Moore wrote, \u201cxxxx.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marcia then retreated to California and plunged into meditation and experiments with hallucinogenic drugs. She was partly influenced by Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist and counter-culture hero who became famous for his advocacy of LSD for therapeutic use in psychiatry. <\/p>\n<p>Marcia began to experiment with ketamine hydrochloride, an anesthetic also known as \u201cSpecial K\u201d \u2014\u00a0and notorious for later becoming a date-rape drug. She took the \u201cpsychotropic substance for what she hoped would be the next consciousness expanding breakthrough,\u201d according to the DiSommas. <\/p>\n<p>Marcia felt that the drug would allow her to explore past lives \u2014 a process she called \u201creturning to the bright world.\u201d She would later co-author a book with her fourth husband, medical doctor Howard Alltounian, titled \u201cJourneys into the Bright World\u201d and published a year before she died. Marcia called ketamine \u201cthe goddess\u201d and often brought along the drug and needles to give herself inter-muscular injections while the family vacationed on Cuttyhunk Island, according to Bentley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-mark-douglas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Marcia Moore and Mark Douglas\" class=\"wp-image-20513012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-mark-douglas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-mark-douglas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-mark-douglas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>One of Moore\u2019s ex-husbands, Mark Douglas, took control of her finances and left her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe wasn\u2019t hiding it,\u201d Bentley told The Post. \u201cThe whole family was just mortified by her behavior because they had a prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> place on the island. The fact that she was running around shooting ketamine and behaving bizarrely was deeply mortifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcia\u2019s niece Elizabeth Moore, an entrepreneur who spent summers on the island as a child, remembers her aunt at that time as \u201cdistant, elusive, radiant.\u201d Elizabeth, now 58,  told The Post that she last saw her aunt about five years before Marcia\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to spend our summers on Cuttyhunk Island,\u201d recalled Elizabeth. \u201cOne summer she was there, and one summer she wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next time Elizabeth saw her aunt was at a supermarket in the summer of 1979 \u2014 on the front page of the National Enquirer under the headline, \u201cMissing scientist has become invisible and is somewhere out in the cosmos.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-howard-engagement.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Marcia Moore and Howard Altounian\" class=\"wp-image-20513032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-howard-engagement.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-howard-engagement.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-howard-engagement.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Moore\u2019s last husband, Howard Altounian, supplied her with ketamine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn retrospect I wonder why we didn\u2019t question it much,\u201d said Elizabeth of her aunt\u2019s disappearance. \u201cIt really was a sign of the times. It was such a quintessential patriarchal society and we were a patriarchal family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 14, 1979, hours before she was to leave on a 20-hour car journey to Ojai, Calif, Marcia Moore simply disappeared. Her husband Howard Alltounian, an anesthesiologist she had married 14 months before and who supplied her with ketamine, didn\u2019t call police until early the following morning. He told police that Marcia had gone to the movies and had never returned. He said she was distraught, a manic depressive and had developed a mental disorder from her use of ketamine. She had also, he claimed, threatened suicide.<\/p>\n<p>But Alltounian\u2019s characterization of his wife was strange to her closest friends, who said that Marcia was over the moon about moving to Ojai \u2014 \u201ca nexus of mystical forces,\u201d as the book described it \u2014 and was planning to start a magazine about reincarnation. What her husband failed to mention to police was that he and Marcia had a troubled relationship. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/maria-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Marcia Moore\" class=\"wp-image-20513070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/maria-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/maria-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/maria-moore.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Only the upper portion of Moore\u2019s skull has ever been found. Her disappearance remains a cold case.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Concord Free Public Library<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alltounian seemingly should have been the primary suspect in her disappearance, but evaded real scrutiny until his death in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can recall my uncle who was the executor of her estate, talking to my father and suspecting that it was the husband who killed her,\u201d said Elizabeth. \u201cThere was concern, but no rage. There wasn\u2019t enough passion to find out the truth. They were all gentlemen and they took care of business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Alltounian seemed grief-stricken by his wife\u2019s death. He told an Enquirer reporter for the 1979 piece that they had an idyllic marriage and were inseparable. He said he was planning to take a vow of celibacy until she returned \u2014 reincarnated. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Marcia Moore's grave\" class=\"wp-image-20513050\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Marcia Moore\u2019s grave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The vow didn\u2019t last long. Soon after her disappearance, Alltounian started dating. In fact, police were investigating him for serial rape, although he was never charged with a crime, according to \u201cDematerialized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time police discovered Marcia\u2019s remains \u2014 only the upper portion of her skull, containing several gold crowns, was found \u2014 in March 1981, two miles from her home, the investigation into her disappearance was hopelessly stalled. <\/p>\n<p>Although the detective leading the investigation suspected Alltounian was to blame, he could never muster the necessary proof, according to \u201cDematerialized.\u201d The couple\u2019s home had never been thoroughly searched after she was reported missing and Alltounian was never rigorously re-interrogated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Marcia Moore\" class=\"wp-image-20515549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcia-moore3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>When asked about his wife\u2019s wearabouts, Howard said she had gone to the movies and never returned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt must be acknowledged that the supernatural elements as they pertain to the investigation were heavily sensationalized, and clouded the judgment of Marcia\u2019s friends, family, fans, even law enforcement,\u201d write the DiSommas. \u201cThey served Howard well as an immense distraction from a conventional missing persons case, potentially forestalling a criminal indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, the body of Marcia\u2019s son Christopher Roof, 59, was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2021\/09\/22\/news\/aroostook\/man-whose-remains-were-found-in-northern-maine-linked-to-woman-who-disappeared-in-1979\/\">identified a decade after he had been reported missing<\/a>, in Stacyville, Maine. As with his mother, the cause and manner of death were undetermined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231\" alt=\"Book cover of 'Dematerialized.'\" class=\"wp-image-20513020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=347 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=116 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/dematerialsized.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The truth about what happened to Marcia Moore on that freezing night in 1979 is still not known to this day.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981, her novelist brother, Robin, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Archives\/1981\/03\/26\/Author-says-sisters-death-may-be-work-of-witches-or-bizarre-cult\/8457354430800\/\">revealed his own theory to the UPI<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t for one minute believe that my sister died a natural death. I think her demise was assisted perhaps by a cult we don\u2019t even know about. Marcia was targeted by these people on several occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that in 1977 Marcia had claimed that a \u201cwitches\u2019 coven\u201d was trying to off her.<\/p>\n<p>But Alltounian certainly had an explanation he promoted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all,\u201d he told the Enquirer, \u201cpoints to dematerialization.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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