Whatever Happened to the Pecords?
The book is a TRUE mystery story (It IS NOT A CRIME STORY! IT MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE ONE, BUT NOT AT THE MOMENT) of a family, the Pecords, who vanished from their home, the last remote stop on the authors paper route, about 50 ft from the Connecticut River, one Friday evening, early fall,1959. Instead of calling the police he called two buddies to do their own investigation and nearly got killed. The book is also a memoir in a sense, since the author allows the reader to peer into the 50's era through the use of nervous flashbacks that he incurred during a run for his life, and which he recorded shortly afterward in a notebook many years ago. Because of a sworn oath with his two buddies, he was unable to tell the story until now. As a coincidence, a relatively new college [Goodwin College] purchased the missing family's home last summer and invited the author to tour the home after 53 yrs. They shared with him, how, "the street he grew up on got is name" and that the home was part of a ferry service set up by Samuel Colt(Colt 45). Mr. Colt also lived there while one of his mansions was being built on a hill to the left of the ferry landing, facing the Connecticut River. If you log on to Goodwin College.com, you can maneuver the telescope on the peak of their building to view the area. webcam.goodwin.edu/view/index.shtm/ Please note: The search for the Pecords is still going on. Readers from the greater Hartford area have been sending pieces of information, which we will try to pass onto readers possibly on the authors website KeyPublishingCompany.com or his soon to be released Blog. Please click the Contact tab on the website and send in any pertinent information you may have. Some readers have been critical of the lack of information and and their belief that the author might not have done enough investigative work in regards to the family. In addition to, seeking information from the town, and the police dept. the FBI and local newspapers, [Keep in mind that the author and his friends were age fifteen at the time.] we have had discussions with the editor of The Gazette, the town newspaper, Bill Doaks, who claims that there have been other unsolved crimes in town. I know it sounds implausible that these situations go unsolved, but it its a fact of life. You also might think that a family member or a friend might have come forward withing the first year of publication, but so far not a single individual as contacted us. Recent findings will be updated soon.