This Day 50 years ago – Saturday 5 January 1957

 DOCTOR DISPUTES STORY

'Kidnapped' Actress Found; Claims Pair Assaulted Her

   INDIO, Calif. (BUP)—Actress Marie (The Body) McDonald told Los Angeles police today she was criminally attacked by two men who she said kidnapped her Thursday night from her San Fernando Valley home.

   She told officers questioning her at a hospital here about her 24-hour disappearance that the two men, a Mexican and a Negro, abducted her under threats to harm her three children.

   She said they forced her to perform unnatural sex acts while she was held in a Los Angeles house, blindfolded "with a sack over my head."

   An examining physician at the hospital later disputed Miss McDonald's claim she had been raped.

BLACK EYE

   The 32-year-old blonde movie queen was found wandering dazed and Incoherent along U.S. highway 60.70 in the desert early today by a truck driver.

   Hospital attendants reported her face was bruised as from a beating, she had a black eye and portions of two front teeth were missing.

   Kept under sedation Friday night, the actress recovered suf­ficiently today to relate to officers her lurid tale of being kidnapped from her palatial home, attacked and then dumped from a speeding ear by her assailants.

HAD $167

   Clad only in a nightrobe over pajama tops, she was found by truck driver Richard D. Corn. 38. He turned her over to police whom she told that she had been beaten raped and robbed of a 22-carat diamond ring.

   Deputies said however that she had $167 in cash in her robe pocket.

   The FBI said it would not enter the case because there was "no evidence of interstate transport."

   Police said they didn't know how to treat the case.

PHONED FRIENDS

   They pointed cut that Miss McDonald had telephoned three times to friends while she claimed she was being held cap­tive but hadn't phoned police.

   They also said that clipped newspaper sections from which a kidnap note had been fashioned, and a tablet of writing paper similar to that to which the note was pasted were both found in the actress' home.

This Day 50 years ago - Friday 4 January 1957

Actress Missing, Feared Kidnapped

   HOLLYWOOD (BUP) — Beautiful actress Marie (The Body) McDonald disappeared from her $65,000 Fernando Valley home early today in night clothes and police feared she was kidnapped.

   Police indicated they had identified two men as the suspected kidnappers.

   Two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were called into the case, on "stand-by" until the 24-hours required by federal law has passed and provided for their entry into the case.

   A trail of anonymous threatening telephone calls and a kidnap note were left behind by the supposed kidnappers, believed by police to have abducted the blonde, 32-year-old divorced mother of three children shortly after midnight this morning.

   "We are compelled by the set of circumstances to treat the disappearance as a bona fide kidnap," said Los Angeles police Chief William Parker. "From all we know at this time it would appear that she left the premises with someone she knew."

   However, the Los Angeles Herald-Express said the actress telephoned the newspaper's Hollywood columnist, Harrison Carroll, at 4 a.m. saying she had been kidnapped by two men.

   'Tonight at my home these two men came in and abducted me. They drugged me. They gave me a shot of something... They carried me miles." the actress was quoted as saying.

   "They arc in the next room. They think I'm asleep. That's how I happened to get hold of a telephone ... They wanted “my ring and money.”

The Vancouver Sun