[citation needed] She was wearing a blue dress, a gray sports sweater, black low shoes with rubber overshoes, dark stockings, a green coat with a fur collar, and a brown tam-o-shanter.

She had brown hair worn in a bob cut, hazel eyes, stood approximately 5 feet 6 inches (1.6764 meters) tall, and weighed 135 pounds (61.235 kilograms).

[citation needed] Human remains later identified as belonging to Hull were found by a hunting party more than seven years later, on December 8, 1943, near the New York state border on the western slope of West Mountain in Hancock, Massachusetts, halfway between the top of West Mountain and Lebanon Springs Road.

[citation needed] Other female hitchhikers later disappeared under similar circumstances within the New England region during the same time period and there has been speculation[by whom?

Constance Christine "Connie" Smith, a 10-year-old girl, ran away from Camp Sloane in Lakeville, Connecticut on July 16, 1952, and was last seen hitchhiking along Route 44.

speculated that she might have been a victim of a serial killer with a preference for young women in their late teens, such as Welden, or early twenties, such as Hull.