A Murderer Walks Free July 9 th, 1984 was the last time anyone saw 26-year-old Dorothy Jean (Butcher) Purcell, or as her friends knew her “Dottie”. She was last seen the Four Seasons Nursing Home at 3800 Englewood Lane in Odessa, where she worked as a licensed vocational nurse. Screenshot of nursing home She’s good natured, quite, and according to police interviews, well-liked by all her co-workers. One of her co-workers, Rita Evans, director of nursing at Four Seasons Nursing Center, reported that she was quite and did her work well. She tells reporters that she didn’t look like the picture that was put out as her “missing person” picture. “Her hair was lighter and her face was thinner when she worked here”, Rita said. Dorothy was quite enough that many of the nurses questioned didn’t really remember her but everyone who did was surprised to learn that she was missing. Dorothy’s mother, Jean Etheredge, had a hard time convincing authorities that her daughter was missing at first. She was 26-years-old and an adult, and in the eyes of the law an adult has every right to go missing if they want. It was three weeks before information regarding her disappearance was sent out to the public. According to investigators after running into a lack of leads they were forced to reach out to the community for help in locating the missing woman.