A family in Nebraska are begging for information after a man's 14-year-old sister vanished out of nowhere in 1972, just two years after she supposedly became an FBI informant.
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Marialice Clark's disappearance left her family reeling for years with little hope she would reappear, with her brother Ed Clark this week appealing for help so that he can learn her fate before he dies.
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Omaha Police Sergeant Brett Schrage, who oversees the missing persons unit, told the Omaha World-Herald that the mystery of Marialice's disappearance 'drives me nuts, it really does.'
Ed's great-niece Jennifer Jackson started helping around three years after the case was reopened in 2019 in hopes of giving him a chance to understand what happened to his baby sister.
Her brother, two years older than Marialice, who was the youngest of six, told her to tell their mother she was leaving, the outlet reported.
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But her friend said she never arrived and Marialice never made it home, Ed said.
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He recalled that their mother searched for her youngest daughter for hours, knocking on doors and looking around the Bali-Hi Lounge, which Marialice frequented.
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Marialice Clark's disappearance in 1972 left her family reeling for years with little hope she would reappear.
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she → leave → hope
In 2021, a letter from the Nebraska Attorney General's Office detailed police reports involving Marialice in 1970
Marialice's brother Ed recalled that their mom searched for her daughter for hours, knocking on doors and hunting around the Bali-Hi Lounge where Marialice was heard to frequent
Ed said that he was sat on the front porch of their Omaha home, pictured, with Marialice when she told him she was going to visit a friend just around the corner
Schrage said it was reported that the young teen got into a car with 'Chicago plates' near the lounge.
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teen → detail → lounge
Ed told the outlet that their mother tried to report Marialice missing the next morning, but was turned away.
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Police told her at the time that she was considered a runaway, the outlet reported.
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outlet → tell → time
Years later in 2021, a letter from the Nebraska Attorney General's Office detailed police reports involving Marialice two years before she disappeared.
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According to an ATF Search Warrant, Special Investigator Thomas Sledge of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the US Treasury Department had interviewed Marialice on July 15, 1970, when she was 12 years old.
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The interview came days before a warrant dated on July 20, 1970, authorized a search of a house around the corner from Marialice's family home, which was where members of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, associated with the Black Panther Party, lived.
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Marialice was said to have told Sledge that her older sister Linda, who was 22 years old at the time, was a member of the Black Panther Party, the search warrant said.
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According to Ed, Linda had dated Edward Poindexter, one of the group's leaders.
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The document further detailed Marialice's account of machine guns, dynamite and the making of a bomb allegedly inside the group's home.
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But Ed and Jackson, who is helping in the search for more information on Marialice's disappearance, said they doubted if the teen had actually spoken to Sledge.
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Ed and his great-niece Jennifer Jackson, who is helping in the search for more information on Marialice's disappearance, said they doubted if the teen had actually spoken to investigators
Pictured outside of Omaha Central Police Station June 27, 1969, after release from questioning, Black Panthers (L to R): Robert Cecil, Robert Griffo, Frank Peate, Gary House, and William Peak
Omaha Police Sergeant Brett Schrage, who oversees the missing persons unit, said that Marialice's disappearance 'drives me nuts, it really does'
Both Ed and Jackson questioned how a 12-year-old would have been in contact with the ATF and had such vivid and detailed descriptions of weapons, as well as how the ATF would have been able to question the minor without informing a guardian.
Jackson also noted that the warrant misspelled the teen's name, the outlet reported.
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David Rice, 1970, seen arrested for the death of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard, 29
Her family believes that Marialice may have been placed in danger by being named in the warrant, which they also believe may have been fabricated.
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Just around a month after her supposed interview in August 1970, police were lured to an abandoned home in Omaha where a suitcase of dynamite exploded and killed Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard, 29.
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David Rice and Poindexter, both members of the Black Panther Party, were jailed for the incident, though both maintained their innocence and believe they were framed by a conspiracy involving multiple government agencies, according to the Charley Project.
Edward Pointdexter, 1970, seen arrested for the death of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard, 29
Jackson added that relatives were told that Marialice was placed into witness protection, although both Ed and Jackson are not convinced.
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Ed was unable to speak with Sledge before he died, and Schrage was told by federal agencies they had no records pertaining to Marialice, according to the World-Herald.
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He shared that their mother had passed at 95 years old without any answers.
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mother → share → answers
'I hope I get to see my baby before I die,' Ed recalled her saying.
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Jackson told the outlet: 'We just want her to know that we did not give up.'
Today, Marialice would be 68 years old.
Anyone with information about Clark or her disappearance can call the Omaha Police Missing Persons Unit at 402-444-4123 or the Police Department’s front desk at 402-444-5818.
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