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Maureen Brainard-Barnes was the first of the girls to disappear; she went missing after taking an Amtrak train from New London, Connecticut, to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 6, 2007.
Her remains were found in December 2010.
But before Maureen Brainard Barnes’s demise she got married to Jason Brainard Barnes and later divorced.
Maureen Brainard Barnes & Jason Brainard Barnes marriage and children
At sixteen years old, Maureen Brainard Barnes fell in love with her high school boyfriend, Jason Brainard Barnes.
Maureen left school to deliver her first child, a baby girl named Caitlin, and Mauren and Jason were soon married in a quickie wedding in their hometown of Groton, Connecticut.
They got married in the year 1999.
Not too long after that, Maureen moved in with Jason and his grandparents in Pawtucket, where they stayed until he enlisted in the army, leading them out-of-state.
Two years later, they returned to the Connecticut area, but would divorce amicably.
They separated without a messy divorce, both agreeing that their daughter Caitlin would stay with Jason and enjoy the benefit of a quality school system.
What happened to Maureen Brainard Barnes?
Brainard-Barnes was 25 years old when she went missing in 2007, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
Police said that she was a sex worker advertising on Craigslist, Backpage and other sites and was working out of hotels and motels in Manhattan.
Authorities believe that on July 6, 2007, Brainard-Barnes took an Amtrak train from New London to Grand Central Terminal.
At the time of her disappearance, she had been with a female friend who returned home early, according to police, and her last known communication was at 11:43 p.m. on July 9, 2007 when she called a Connecticut friend.
“Although she was known to work out of motel rooms, on the night of July 9, 2007, she told her friend she would be going to meet someone outside of the motel on an ‘out-call,'” according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
A friend reported her as missing to the Norwich Police Department and the New York Police Department later took over the case, police said.
