The Unsolved Murder of Marina Habe

A teenage girl comes home late from a date and is kidnapped from her driveway while her mother watched.

Jennifer Baldwin
6 min readFeb 22, 2022
Source: Wikimedia Commons

College students are just starting their lives anew. They have graduated high school and are out on their own for the first time in their lives. Many of them are living independently and are starting to see what life has to offer them.

Marina Habe

Marina Habe was the 17-year-old daughter of Hans Habe and Eloise Hardt. Hans was a well-known author who fled Europe as a Hungarian-Jewish refugee during World War II. He had published a negative piece on Adolf Hitler’s father, and being Jewish had already put a target on his back.

Hans married Eloise who was a B-movie actress. She was never famous and only played minor roles in films and television series. However, she was known to be a reliable supporting actress.

Hans and Eloise had only one child together, Marina, before divorcing and going their separate ways. Marina stayed in Hollywood with her mother while Hans moved to Switzerland and continued his writing career.

Marina was known to be a quiet and shy moral Catholic girl. After Marina graduated from high school, Eloise sent her to college at the University of Hawaii so she could…

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Jennifer Baldwin

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