Missing Woman: Christine Marie Markey--NY--01/10/1993

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Christine Marie Markey



Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: January 10, 1993 from Oneida, NY
Classification: Endangered Missing
DOB: November 13, 1970
Age: 22 years old
Height and Weight: 5'2, 105 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes.  Markey has a rose tattooed on her right ankle and a scorpion tattooed on her left hip.  There is a scar on her chin.  Her nickname is Chris.  
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black leather coat with fringe on the bottom, black jeans, small pearl ring on her left middle finger, a gold chain necklace with a pearl and diamond on it, and a gold bracelet.

Details of Disappearance

Markey was last seen in Oneida, NY on January 10/ 1993.  She got into an altercation with her girlfriend of several years at a bar in the vicinity of Phelps Street that day.  Markey had apparently been seeing a man, and her girlfriend confronted them together at a bar.  They argued, and Markey and her girlfriend left together.  Their landlord saw them go into the apartment they shared in the 400 block of Elizabeth Street.  Markey has never been heard from again.  She carried a leather pocketbook at the time of her disappearance.

Markey took no other personal belongings with her and she never picked up her last paychecks from either of her two jobs, one of which was at the Oneida Ltd. Factor's knife division.  She resided in the 400 block of Elizabeth Street in Oneida at the time of her disappearance.  Markey's boyfriend was questioned and ruled out as a suspect, but her girlfriend is considered a person of interest in the case.

Markey had several run-ins with the law prior to her disappearance, but her father said she's been doing well in the three or four years before she vanished and had completed college.  No one has been charged in connection with Markey's disappearance; her case remains unsolved.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Onieda City Police at 315-363-2323.  

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Christine Markey

A Tempestuous Relationship

Police say Christine Markey and her live-in girlfriend, Tracy L. Taber, had an on-again off-again romance spanning a number of years. And although the couple kept many of their troubles to themselves, cops say their investigation showed the couple's relationship was far from perfect.

So when Taber found out that Christine had secretly been dating Robert Mailloux--whom she met in a bar--for about a month, she was less than thrilled, to say the least.

Police say that the night before Christine Markey disappeared, Taber confronted Markey and her new boyfriend, Robert Mailloux, at a local Oneida, N.Y. bar near Phelps Street. Mailloux later told police that Taber said, "you'll never see Chris again." This was just hours after Mailloux says he witnessed the two women arguing--allegedly about his relationship with Markey--in their home.

In a statement to police, Mailloux says Markey and Taber yelled profanities at one another, while Mailloux and a male friend listened. After the argument at home, Markey and Mailloux went to a local bar and as they were leaving, Taber pulled up in her car and demanded that Markey get in. That was the last time Mailloux ever saw Markey.
The landlord let Markey's boyfriend into her apartment, but no one was there.

Suspicious Disappearance

Christine's landlord told police that the next day she saw Christine enter her apartment at 474 Elizabeth St. in Oneida with Taber. But other than this, Markey has not been seen since the early morning hours of January 10, 1993.

Police say Mailloux went to Christine's apartment later that morning at 9 a.m. and again at 11 a.m. to see if Christine was alright. On the second visit at 11 a.m., the landlord let Mailloux into Christine's apartment, but no one was there. He quickly notified Christine's family who filed a missing persons report with the Oneida Police Department about a week later. Mailloux was later cleared after police questioned him.

Christine's disappearance has been ruled suspicious because she left behind all of her belongings in her apartment and her paycheck at work. Cops say her family thinks Taber may be involved in the disappearance, but are not exactly sure how. Investigators recently spoke with Taber--who relocated to Florida--but she contends that they are looking at the wrong person. Police say Taber is a person of interest in the case.

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Full human skeleton found in Oneida; to be compared to several missing people

By JOLEEN FERRIS Apr 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM EDT Updated: Apr 7, 2010 at 3:53 PM EDT

ONEIDA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Oneida City Police Chief David Meeker says the a full skeleton has been found off of Canal Road in the City of Oneida.

The skeleton will be compared to dental records of missing local people, including 21 year-old Christine Markey, who disappeared in 1993.

Another local woman, 19 year-old Tammy Mahoney, went missing from the area in 1981. Police in the past have searched Oneida Nation land for her remains.

"Yes, any missing person case [is being looked onto]," said Meeker. "She [Markey] disappeared in 1993, so it is a possibility. There's others from around the area that we're also looking at."

A fisherwoman on Tuesday originally found a skull and a partial hip bone off Canal Road in Oneida. Forensic investigators out of Onondaga County spent Wednesday morning further excavating the area, sifting through the dirt and by Wednesday afternoon had uncovered a full human skeleton.

Investigators already have Markey's dental records and those of others who have gone missing from the area.

They said the remains will be analyzed and comparisons made at the Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office.

Chief Meeker said the next step is trying to identify the remains and determine when the body was buried and possible cause of death.

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Officials compare human bones with dental records of 2 missing women
Complete skeleton found along creek in Oneida

By ROCCO LaDUCA Observer-Dispatch
Posted Apr 07, 2010 @ 01:07 PM update Apr 07, 2010 @ 05:58 PM

ONEIDA — Dental records of two Oneida-area women who disappeared many years will be compared to intact teeth from a complete skeleton discovered along Cowalson Creek, Oneida police said.

Police Chief David Meeker was quick to point out that the remains aren't necessarily those of the missing women — Tammy Mahoney, 19, who vanished in 1981, or Christine Markey, 21, who disappeared in 1993. They also could be bones from an old burial ground.

“It would be nice to bring closure to those cases and to those families, but right now it could be anybody,” Meeker said.

As forensic investigators sifted through the soil Tuesday, they found an exposed skull with some teeth intact and a pelvic bone. It is unclear if the remains are those of a man or a woman, or an adult or a child, the chief said.

On Wednesday, they unearthed the complete skeleton.

All remains will be sent to the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A woman fishing found the bones at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 75 yards south of Canal Road and along the eastern side of the creek.

The creek intersects perpendicular with the Erie Canal, about 2 miles away from the western most part of the Oneida city-line.

The creek has overflowed many times over the years, and it is unclear if the remains were buried where they were found or not.

Several local law-enforcement agencies have contacted Oneida police about the discovery of the remains to compare with their own files on missing persons, Meeker said.

According to the Madison County sheriff's officials in 2003, investigators believe Mahoney was picked up hitchhiking and taken to a party on Oneida Indian Nation territory the night of May 8, 1981.

Police speculated at the time that she was later abducted, gang raped and killed by men who were still living in the area, according to O-D archives.

"We've known who the killers are for quite some time, and they know we know who killed her," then-Undersheriff Doug Bailey said in 2003. "This is a crime someone needs to pay for."

Although police have previously conducted searches for the body of Mahoney, who moved here from Long Island, her remains still haven't been found.

In the years since Markey was last seen alive in early 1993, her father, Philip Markey, would repeatedly drive his antique 1936 Buick around town offering it free to anyone with information on his daughter's whereabouts, according to O-D archives.

Regarding Markey's case, the day disappeared she was about to move out of her apartment at 474 Elizabeth St. in Oneida, city police said at the time.

Markey and her female roommate had a "volatile relationship" for about 4 to 5 years, and Markey's father said he immediately felt something wasn't right after speaking with his daughter's roommate, according to O-D archives.

There was no blood or evidence that Markey struggled with an abductor at the time, but Markey's absence was ruled suspicious because she did not pack any clothes and left her last paycheck at Oneida Ltd., where she had worked, archives show.

On Wednesday, Meeker would not comment on the current details of those missing-person investigations.

Many unanswered questions

Oneida police and Madison County sheriff's deputies will assist members of the Onondaga County medical examiner’s office as they remove the bones.

Madison County Assistant District Attorney Doug DeMarche Jr., a former prosecutor with the Oneida County District Attorney's Office, also was on the scene Wednesday.

Then, police hope to piece together some understanding about who the bones belong to, and what they’re doing buried in Oneida, Meeker said.

“We’ll be checking all the angles here, because it could be someone that was moved there, it could have been someone killed there, it could have been a burial site,” Meeker said.

This is the first time in recent memory that human bones have been discovered in Oneida under mysterious circumstances, Meeker said.

In the past, bones were discovered, along with cemetery headstones, after a burial site was dug up during a construction project, Meeker said.