Audrey Eileen Watson Dill
Audrey Eileen Watson Dill
DOB: April 8, 1946
Age at Report: 32
Weight: 110 lbs.
Height: 5’03″
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Sex: Female
Incident Type: Involuntary disappearance
Missing From: Burlington, IA
Des Moines County
Investigating Agency: Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office
Missing Since: August 18, 1978
Audrey Eileen (Watson) Dill, 32, was reported missing to the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office in Burlington, Iowa, on August 18, 1978. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a blouse.
In October 1978, Marion E. Watson (we presume to be Audrey’s biological parent) filed a petition in the Iowa District Court for Henry County to be named conservator over all property belonging to the victim.
Courtesy Meyahna The original notice of intent for Probate No. 14410 was published in area newspapers on Oct. 19, Oct. 26, and Nov. 2, 1978.
If you have any information regarding Eileen’s disappearance, please contact the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office at 319-753-8212 or the Missing Person Information Clearinghouse / Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at 1-800-346-5507.
You may also contact Iowa Cold Cases via our Contact form or our Anonymous Tip Form.
You don’t have the correct date Audrey Eileen Dill was reported missing. She disappeared in the 1970′s. She is my sister.
Dear Cheryl,
Thank you so much for contacting us about your missing sister, Audrey, and for clarifying the date. In cases like these — where we have so little information and what we do have appears to be the same erroneous information reprinted across the Internet — it helps enormously to hear from one of the victim’s family members.
Would it be possible for you to send me the correct details and information about Audrey’s case, and (if at all possible) to send me a better photo of your sister that we may use on her case summary page? (Full credit will be provided to you for any photos you let us use.)
If you’d like to include additional details about your sister’s case such as the circumstances under which she went missing (and whether there were any immediate suspects or persons of interest) I will get that added to Audrey’s page as soon as I receive it. You may send it directly to jody@iowacoldcases.org.
Watching months and then years pass after Audrey’s disappearance, I can’t begin to imagine how difficult the “not knowing” must be for you and your family.
You are in my thoughts.
Thank you in advance, and I look forward to hearing from you again.
All best,
Jody
I would like to make a comment. I am Eileen’s first cousin. My name is Karen K. Watson/Shull. The comment I would like to make is that Eileen goes by the the name of Eileen, The other name you are using is her middle name ONLY. Her name before she got married the first time was “Watson”. Eileen is my first cousin.
I want to know what happened to her. Has the detective agency on this case had any hits at all????
Her name is Eileen A. Watson (maiden name)
Have you found anything????
Dear Karen,
Thanks so much for your comment, and please accept our condolences on your cousin’s unsolved disappearance.
I must admit, what little information we have about her is confusing at best. Her sister, Cheryl Sanders, had written back in January and said we had the incorrect date — she stated her sister disappeared in the 1970s, not 1994 — but then when I responded and asked for the correct date in the 70s, she didn’t respond. Also, she referred to her sister as “Audrey Eileen Dill.”
Now, you are telling us it was Eileen Audrey, not Audrey Eileen, and that her last name should be listed as Watson, not Dill. I realize now that Watson was her maiden name, but was she divorced at the time she went missing? If so, had she taken back her maiden name?
I’ve made some of the changes to her page, but have included both surnames in the event someone looks for her under Dill rather than Watson. And, other than the information provided on the State’s MPIC site, we still have no official “missing” date other than the one they have listed.
If you have any other information you could provide to us for her page, it would be most helpful. Perhaps we’ll be able to find more under her maiden name, as that was something we didn’t have before.
I’m not sure whether any new leads have been reported to the investigating agency, but you could contact them (the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office) and inquire as to whether they have anything new to report.
Thank you again for contacting us, and we look forward to receiving any new information you might be able to provide, including any photos.
All best,
Jody Ewing
Thanks go out to Meyahna for sending along the conservatorship notice on Audrey Dill and also alerting us to Audrey’s now-updated page (with the revised missing date) on the Missing Person Information Clearinghouse site. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
Jody!
Do you know Eileen’s home address at the time she went missing? I just wondered if she still lived at her mom’s Marion house at that time. I am just wondering.
Karen,
Eileen’s first cousin
Did Eileen’s mom Marion Watson have any contact with her in a few days before Eileen went missing???