said that his father would constantly search for her and had hoped to find her in more recent years, with the advent of the Internet and Facebook. The belief was that she had a family of her own and was taking care of them through the years.īut they still wanted to find out what happened to her. and Colon-Veltman, who are brother and sister, told CNN Saturday that the family never believed anything nefarious had happened to their aunt. "Numerous interviews and investigational processes were conducted following her identification which led to the development of a suspect," according to the statement.ĬNN has reached out to the Carbon County District Attorney's office to determine whether Sierra has retained an attorney.Ĭolon-Veltman called Trooper Brian Noll with the Pennsylvania State Police a "hero," noting that the department continually reopened the case over the last several decades.Ĭolon Jr. Sierra, now 63, was arrested and charged with one count of criminal homicide in Ozone Park, New York on March 31, where he is awaiting extradition, the statement said. In a statement sent to CNN Friday, Pennsylvania State Police said that it had both confirmed the identity of the remains as Evelyn Colon and her fetus, and arrested a suspect: Luis Sierra, Colon's boyfriend. Investigators in the case had given the remains the name "Beth Doe" and that how she was known until this week. Evelyn's body was found dismembered in three suitcases on the banks of the Lehigh River, underneath a bridge of Interstate 80 in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1976.Įvelyn was in her third trimester and her fetus, a girl, had been removed from her body and was found with her in one of the suitcases, according to the NCMEC. The details of her death, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), are gruesome. What the family didn't know was that her body was found in 1976 but remained unidentified until Pennsylvania State Police identified the remains as Evelyn nearly 45 years later. The family never heard from Evelyn again. "They always felt she left with him to start her new life with him and she just wanted to stay away." "People around the neighborhood, they said, 'Oh, they moved away.' So that's the story that we grew up learning."įamily members told CNN they received a letter from Sierra later saying that he and Colon were OK, but that she didn't want to have any contact with her family.Įvelyn's nephew, Luis Colon Jr., said his father - Evelyn's brother - told him growing up that she would reach out to the family when she was ready. One day, though, her mother went to the apartment to visit and nobody answered the door.
You get your girlfriend pregnant, you move out, and that's how it is."Ĭolon-Veltman said the couple moved into an apartment together soon thereafter and Colon's mother would often stay in touch with the two to see how they were doing. "It was a different culture, a different time, in the 70s. "Back then, things were a little different," said Miriam Colon-Veltman, Evelyn's niece. Mary Beth Hughes briefly returned to filmmaking in the mid-1970s, playing character roles in such drive-in fare as The Working Girls (1974) and How's Your Love Life? (1977).Digitally reconstructed images created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of Evelyn Colon, whose dismembered body was found in 1976 but remained unidentified until recently.Įvelyn Colon was one of five siblings in Jersey City, New Jersey, when she got pregnant in 1976 at age 15 by her 19-year-old boyfriend, Luis Sierra. In the mid-1950s, Hughes gave up films in favor of work as a nightclub singer/musician and television actress she was often cast as nagging wife Clara Appleby on TV's The Red Skelton Show, possibly because she was one of the few actresses whom Skelton couldn't break up. While her film career never really went anywhere, Hughes remained in the public eye through her many cheesecake photos in movie-oriented magazines of the era. She is billed second in the moody western The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), but her role is utterly expendable in fact, she has fewer lines than George Meeker, the unbilled actor playing her husband.
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From 1940 through 1943, Hughes was part of the "B" stable at 20th Century-Fox, playing both good and bad girls in the popular Michael Shayne series with Lloyd Nolan, and going through the usual "other woman" paces in films like Orchestra Wives (1942).
Encouraged to pursue a theatrical career by her grandmother, a onetime actress, Hughes went from stage to films in 1938.
Like her contemporaries Lynn Bari and Veda Ann Borg, blonde actress Mary Beth Hughes seldom rose above "starlet" or "second-echelon star" status, even though she worked steadily and enjoyed a loyal fan following.
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