S3 Ep9: How sad, How lovely: The Disappearance of Connie Converse
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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The Death of Connie Converse
Connie's liberal leaning politics, political activism and feminism helped her fit in and find community at the University. By 1970 when Connie would have been about 46, those closest to her got worried enough about her emotional state that they paid for her to have a six month sabbatical in Europe. She stopped speaking to her friends back in New York and her drinking increased. Her brother Phil believes these two things may have been the last two straws to push her over the edge. In August of 1974, one week after she turned 50, she drove off from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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