Welcome to the Doe Network! 
 
 The Doe Network is a 100% volunteer organization devoted to assisting investigating agencies in bringing closure to national and international cold cases concerning Missing & Unidentified Persons. It is our mission to give the nameless back their names and return the missing to their families. 
 
 We hope to accomplish this mission in three ways: 
 
 By providing exposure to these cases on our web site. 
 
 By providing credible potential matches between missing and unidentified persons to investigating agencies. 
 
 By striving to get much needed and deserved media exposure to these cases. 
 
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 Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller was last seen by her family in 1974. (courtesy Doe Network) 
 
 LAUREL, Ind. (KWQC) – Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller was 28 back in 1974 when she gave birth to her third child in Laurel, Indiana. 
 
 She then decided she was too young to be a mother, signed her children over to her parents, left home, and was never seen again by her family. 
 
 In 2014, the Doe Network, which helps families with missing person investigations, contacted the Indiana State Police with details of Gillespie-Miller’s disappearance. 
 
 ISP was told the last contact family members had with her was a 1975 letter postmarked Richmond, Indiana. 
 
 Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis took the case, and, using DNA from Gillespie-Miller’s daughter, checked to see if an unidentified female body discovered in Richmond in 1975 was that of Gillespie-Miller. 
 
 It was not. 
 
 Jarvis then began to investigate the trail of a woman who sounded similar to Gillespie-Miller, a woman who had lived in Tennessee in the 1980’s and was said to have later moved to Texas. 
 
 He heard of a woman residing in a small south Texas town since the 1990s, possibly still alive, possibly under an alias. 
 
 Texas Rangers went to the woman’s home, and she admitted she is indeed Lula Gillespie-Miller, now 69, from Laurel, Indiana. 
 
 “We’re delighted!” said Todd Matthews, Doe Network media representative. 
 
 Matthews tells KWQC that Doe Network specializes in cold cases in which missing individuals have not been seen in many years and are often deceased. 
 
 He says Gillespie-Miller’s case is rare because, after 42 years, “the likelihood she was dead was far greater than she was alive.” 
 
 Police say she is unable to explain why she left her life behind in 1974, but she committed no crime in doing so. 
 
 Gillespie-Miller has given investigators permission to provide her contact information to her daughter, Tammy Miller. 
 
 This Easter weekend, Miller hopes to make contact with the mother she has never known. 

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– A missing mom who was apparently in no big hurry to be found has been tracked down and now has another chance to get to know the children she left 42 years ago. After he was contacted by the Doe Network, a volunteer group that investigates cold missing-person cases, Indiana State Police Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis managed to find Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller in a small town in south Texas, KWQC reports. In 1974, Gillespie-Miller, then 28, disappeared soon after giving birth to her third child. She told her family she was too young to be a mother, signed the children over to her parents, and wasn't heard from again, apart from a letter in 1975. Jarvis, with the help of the 1975 letter, was able to follow Gillespie-Miller's trail from Indiana to Tennessee to Texas. He contacted Texas Rangers, who went to her home and confirmed that the 69-year-old is the woman who disappeared decades ago, NBC reports. Police say she didn't explain why she left her family behind in Indiana, but she agreed to have her contact information passed to her daughter, Tammy. Thanks to Jarvis' hard work, "this Easter weekend, Tammy Miller hopes to make contact with the mother she has never known," police said in a statement. (After 30 years, this missing man remembered his name.)