Wilmas Life...

Wilma June Nissen was born on October 18th, 1954 to Charles Clarence & June Eva Nissen in San Francisco, California. 

My biological mother, Wilma June Nissen & her younger sister Mona had awful childhoods!                                    Mona was deaf & mute.                        Their mother walked out on the family while the girls were very young.

After their mother left, things got really bad. Their "father" would lock the girls in a closet when he went to work. Then,  things went from bad to worse... their father lost his job, so the family of 3 ended up living in a car in the Los Angeles County area. Their father would lock the younger sister in the trunk of the car & send Wilma to roam the streets alone, to try to find food.                            Can you imagine locking a 7 year old in the trunk of a car & sending a 9 year old to wander the streets alone looking for food??? Wilma was homeless before she was 10 years old!

Thankfully in 1964 CPS stepped in & removed Wilma & her disabled sister from the custody of their abusive & neglectful father.

Unfortunately,  the sisters were separated.  They were able to visit each other from time to time. 

Wilma was 10 years old when she went to her 1st foster family.                        She'd never been to school, she couldn't read or write, or even use a fork!

Wilmas 1st foster family was amazing! They truly loved her and treated her (& their 2 other foster kids) like their own! They taught my mom to read, write, do some basic math.... they were a family, if she'd been able to stay with them, she would have lived a good life. But, in just under 2 years, CPS screwed that up. The foster mother developed severe rheumatoid arthritis,  so CPS decided they couldn't foster anymore.

After her first tase of family, of stability & love, she was shuffled around the orange county foster system in the 60's & 70's until she was 18. I know she went to at least 3 different foster homes & at least 2 foster facilities. Her last foster home was with Alice & Vince Haas in Seal Beach, California. 

Wilma married young. Her 1st husband was Donald Wellington. Wellington is believed to have acted as more of a  pimp than a husband.  He had a record that including pandering. My mom never knew stability or healthy relationships, she was probably easily talked into the sex trade.  Shortly after her marriage to Donald Wellington,  the arrests for prostitution began. 

While she was married to Wellington,  Wilma had 2 sons.  Michael Pizarro Jr.  &  Donald Wellington Jr. 

Both boys were born premature (at around 7 months), they were both born in 1974 about 7 months apart.            They were both taken as infants by CPS.  I've never met my half brothers, I don't even know if they are alive.

In June of 1977, Wilma married Robert Alexander Irvin in Long Beach, California. In August of 1977, she had a daughter... me.  I was fostered, then later adopted by her final foster family. Unfortunately,  they would not tell me anything about her. 

Wilma always kept in touch with her 1st foster family & her last. She probably kept in touch with the family I never met. She ALWAYS stayed in contact. 

I know in roughly the years 1972-1977 she liked to hang out at The Pike in Long Beach,California with friends...

Wilma probably lived in San Diego county briefly in 1977-1978.

In February of 1978, Wilma left California with a much older man named Charles Inman Belt.  She & Belt went to Atlanta, Georgia where they stayed with Belts mother. Wilma stayed for a couple of weeks. Then she was gone...

Belt believed she hitched a ride back to southern California.  Sadly, she didn't. 

I 100% believe she met someone in the Atlanta area that took her to the Sioux Falls, South Dakota area. That's over 1,000 miles away from Atlanta. Wilma did not have a car. 

I BELIEVE IN MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE that she met someone there that convinced her to go with them to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 

In Sioux Falls, Wilma was working for an escort service that went by the names Playgirls & Playmates. They sent girls to the Sioux Falls & Northwest Iowa area.

LE suspect 2 women that worked for the same service know something.            These 2 women went by the stage names Peaches & Sugar.                      They are described as light skinned African American ladies that would have been in their mid to late 20's in 1978. Law enforcement has no idea where or who Peaches, BUT... they DO know who & where Sugar is.

Sugar has failed multiple polygraph tests,  but denies any involvement in my mothers brutal murder. 

 My mother,  Wilma June Nissen was murdered & found dragged into a rural roadside ditch next to an unmaintained gravel county road in 1978 in Northwest Iowa, (Western Lyon County) near lake Pahoja. That's not very far from Sioux Falls,  South Dakota.

She was 23 years old.

Wilma was found Extremely Brutally murdered in October of 1978. Her body was severely decomposed & it is  estimated that she was murdered in the summer. Almost all of her top teeth were smashed out & her lower jaw was completely missing & never found.     Her jaw was not missing due to wildlife.   

There was a rope tied between the ankles of her white calf length go-go boots. The rope was not to bind, but to drag her body, face down, into that ditch.

Her body was nude from the waist up. Around her left leg were khaki / green pants with braid trim & bikini style underwear.  She had a friendship ring on her right ring finger. 

Her cause of death was extremely brutal, & extremely specific...but LE has not released what it is. 

Wilma also went by the first names of  Amy & Boots.  She went by the last names of Wellington,  Irvin,  & Belt.

My mother was never reported missing.  She remained a Jane Doe for 27 years.   She was buried with a stone that just said "unidentified female" until 2006.

Thanks to Sheriff Blythe Bloemendaal having a lab technician run her prints nationwide,my mother was finally identified. I found out the woman I'd been searching for my entire life had been murdered when I was about a year old.  

Sheriff Bloemendaal & Detective Jerry Birkey were amazing. They truly went above & beyond to solve my moms murder! Sheriff Bloemendaal even had her exhumed in 2007 in the hopes of finding DNA. Sadly, Her casket was filled with water & no DNA was collected.    However,  her cause of death was determined.  

Later, her clothing & the rope were sent to a private lab, where they were able to get amplified DNA.  Amplified DNA can not be run through CODIS.  That was almost 10 years ago...

Sheriff Bloemendaal & Detective Birkey both have left their positions, but I am beyond grateful to them for all that they did & the kindness they showed to both my mother & myself!

There have been 2 sheriffs since then. Ex sheriff Stewart Vander Stoep & now sheriff Brian Hilt.  The current detective is detective Amy Stoner. There is even a new Iowa Attorney General's Office Cold Case Unit thanks to AG Brianna Bird.

But, for some reason my moms case is stalled. I have driven up to meet the current sheriff & lead detective. I also met the investigator with the AG Cold Case Unit.  But the meeting was pointless.  As anyone with a loved one involved in a cold case probably knows and has heard all too often....the answer to pretty much every question or concern is "we can't tell you because it's an open / active investigation". 

My real question is,  just because it's an active investigation,  is anyone actively investigating?

I am sick to death of hearing from others, including law enforcement that my moms case wont be solved. Or even that it shouldn't be looked into!

The Lyon County, Iowa Sheriff’s Department website used to have a reward & tip line for my mom. It's gone. The links on many articles are dead, they just go to a blank page. I'm told it isn't able to be fixed. Seriously???

Law enforcement has amplified DNA from almost 10 years ago. I don't understand why they refuse to allow a private lab make the DNA more viable, or use the DNA to prove Sugar was there or rule her out, even when it would cost them nothing! I don't understand why they refuse to even talk to an expert,  it would cost them nothing! I don't understand why a FOIA request is denied. I don't understand why they haven't buried her!

I have been doing my best to fight for her,  nobody did when she was alive!

Now all of my meta accounts (Facebook & Instagram) have been permanently deleted by the bots at meta.  It almost crushed me! I lost contact with a LOT of amazing people, it almost broke me!     But I can't stop! I can't let it break me!

I am her daughter, & I intend to fight for her until her case is solved or my dying breath! Remember her name,  Wilma June Nissen

PLEASE,  Share her story to anyone that will listen. Remember her name, say it, know it. She was my mother!

I KNOW her case can be solved! PLEASE, SHARE HER NAME, HER CASE, HER STORY!
WILMA JUNE NISSEN

 My mother was failed by her parents, by the system, by her husbands,  She always struggled. She had to fight for survival from the day she was born. I wish I could have fought for her in life,  KNOW that I am fighting now!

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