Eddy Segall’s father would like to know what happened to his daughter.

So would the police.

Now 86, and living in Florida, her father declined to speak about his daughter or her disappearance 33 years ago, saying “I don’t want to open old wounds or anything like that.”

However, he urged anyone who knows anything about Segall to please share it with police.

“If anybody knows anything, come forth to the police, and give them even the least bit of information,” he said. “That would be greatly appreciated.”

Segall was 27 when she vanished in 1977, and would be 60 years old if she were alive today. Former Hollis police officer Joseph Manning, for one, is certain she is not.

“There’s people that know what happened to her,” Manning said this week. “There’s no doubt in my mind.”

“She was murdered, and somebody that was directly involved has said something (to someone, at some point),” he said.

Manning was a rookie police officer in June 1977, when Segall was reported missing in Nashua. He left the force in 1979 and has since retired from United Parcel Service, but he’s never forgotten Segall’s vanishing, he said.

Segall was living with Stephen and Rosaline Bowman, at 14 Burritt St. in Nashua, at the time, Hollis police Lt. James Sartell said, and she routinely borrowed the Bowmans’ 1969 Oldsmobile to drive to Women’s World in Merrimack, where she took exercise classes. The Bowmans reported both Segall and their car missing on June 15, 1977, and Segall never turned up at the gym that day, police said. Stephen Bowman now lives in Arizona, according to public records, but he could not be reached for comment.

More than two weeks later, on July 3, 1977, a walker in the woods found the light green, Oldsmobile coupe on a logging road in the midst of what is now the Hollis Town Forest, about 1½ miles from Wheeler Road.

The car was abandoned near where a much older, vintage, stolen Ford was left years ago, and remains today, after being driven into Parker Pond (now more of a swamp).

“Parker Pond was much more expansive 30 years ago than it is now,” Sartell said.

Manning brought officers from Hollis police and the state police Cold Case Unit out to the area last week, to show them where he remembers the car was found. Police are trying to pinpoint both the car’s location and how it got there, as the roads and trails have changed over the years, Sartell said.

“The car’s location informs the investigation,” he said.

The keys to the Oldsmobile were found on the ground nearby, and Manning said he believes that another vehicle also drove into the woods, and least two people left the area in that other vehicle. Though some of her belongings were found in the car, Manning said evidence suggests Segall didn’t drive the Oldsmobile into the woods, and he doesn’t believe she left, either.

Though police found nothing when they searched the area in 1977, Manning suspects Segall was buried somewhere out there, he said. Sartell said police have no evidence of that, however, and haven’t narrowed down a place to look.

“We’re not at a point where we would begin digging and/o r dredging the lake,” Sartell said.

Segall was originally from New Jersey, and she lived in Florida before coming to Nashua, where she lived at 614 S. Main St. before moving in with the Bowmans, Manning said. Stephen Bowman reclaimed the Oldsmobile after it was found, Sartell said.

Police know of at least two local men who were involved with Segall around the time of her disappearance, Manning and Sartell said. The Telegraph was unable to reach either for comment.

Nashua police also were involved in the investigation into Segall’s disappearance, but detectives declined to comment on the current investigation.

The creation of the state’s Cold Case Unit prompted Hollis police to take another look and reopen their investigation into Segall’s disappearance, Sartell said.

“The advent of the Cold Case Unit kind of put the case on the radar a little bit,” Sartell said.

Segall’s case wasn’t initially investigated as a homicide but rather as a missing person, Sartell noted, though Manning said police sent divers into Dunklee Pond after the Oldsmobile was found.

“I think there was some follow-through that could be done. … There were still some loose ends we felt could be explored. We at least wanted to close it to 2010 standards,” Sartell said.

No sign of Segall has turned up since she was reported missing, and she has been officially declared dead. Police decided they could do more, and they hope eventually to interview everyone who spoke with police at the time of Segall’s disappearance, he said.

“I wouldn’t go so far as to say we have, quote unquote, suspects,” Sartell said. “There’s people of interest, that we’d like to talk to about the case.”

Retired Hollis Police Chief Paul Bosquet was also assisting with the investigation, as the officer who first found the vehicle, Sartell said. Bosquet could not be reached for comment.

Andrew Wolfe can be reached at 594-6410 or awolfe@nashuatelegraph.com.