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Patterson, William and Margaret

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Patterson, William and Margaret

August 20, 2026

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William and Margaret Patterson, owners of Patterson Photo Supply in downtown El Paso, vanished in March 1957 and became the subject of one of the city’s most enduring missing-person cases. Their disappearance from the 3000 block of Piedmont generated rumors of kidnapping, murder, espionage, UFO…

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