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Dorothy Arnold (Missing Heiress)

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Socialite

The Resume

    (1884-circa December 12, 1910)
    Daughter of a wealthy perfume importer and niece of a Supreme Court justice
    Last seen outside Bretano's bookstore on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street in Manhattan

Why she might be annoying:

    She reportedly was depressed over her short stories having been rejected by magazines.
    Her family, suspecting that she may have eloped with George Griscom, Jr., avoided contacting the police for six weeks.
    Her brother and mother to Naples to forcibly interrogate Griscom without results.
    Perhaps to avoid suspicion that he was responsible for the disappearance, Griscom spent thousands of dollars searching for her.
    Her father spent a further $100,000 trying to find her without success.
    There was a rumor that she had become pregnant out of wedlock, the family had banished her to Switzerland and the search was an elaborate ruse to cover up the scandal.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her family mocked her literary ambitions.
    Friends who saw her on the day she disappeared said she was cheerful and upbeat.
    She may have been the victim of a botched back-alley abortion.
    A convict in Rhode Island claimed that a man resembling Griscom had paid him $150 to bury Arnold in the cellar of a house near West Point; however, a police search found no sign of a body (1916).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 79 Votes: 59.49% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 45 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 39 Votes: 51.28% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 31 Votes: 48.39% Annoying