The Husband Who Vanished
For 15 years, Anne McDonnell lived in limbo—not knowing whether her Jim was dead or alive. Then one afternoon the doorbell rang.
By Joseph P. Blank
The McDonnells lived in a small brick house in Larchmont, a suburb of New York City. Jim was foreman of mail carriers at the post office where he had worked for 25 years. A gentle, soft-spoken man, he had a wave of the hand acquaintance with hundreds of people in town. Married in 1960, he and Anne were childless.