Source Record

Missouri Department of Conservation — MoMo transcript

A permanent provenance record connected to witness and case pages.

Verified source layerSRC-4.2-003

Bibliographic record

Missouri Department of Conservation — MoMo transcript

Source date1972
Source typecontemporaneous newspaper text preserved in state transcript
WitnessDoris Harrison
EventMarzolf Hill / MoMo sighting

Research role

At age 15, Harrison was reported as looking from a bathroom window after her younger brother screamed and seeing a tall black shaggy object roughly 50 feet from the house.

~7 ftblackshaggy~50 ft from house

Provenance control

The current exact source is a modern state transcript reading the 1972 clipping. Later dead-dog, odor and other details require separate provenance rather than being backfilled into the newspaper account.