Adele Curtis

Adele Jordan had multiple names including Adele Stowe and Adele Curtis. Her parents, Carl Jordan and Patsy Carlisle, were both from Texas. When she was a baby, she lived with her parents in San Juan, California. By the time she was 5, the family had moved to El Centro, California, and later to Payson and Lukeville, Arizona, before returning to California in 1940. Adele moved back to Yuma, Arizona, in 1946. At age 35, Adele married Dannie R. Curtis, who was 46, in Imperial County, California. From her two marriages, Adele had five children, including Kris Stowe, Marina Curtis, Lori Curtis, Danny James Curtis, and Gary Stowe. Sadly, Dannie passed away on December 20th, 1984. Tragically, Adele was murdered on July 14th, 1996, by Gary Wayne Snelling. The case went unsolved for many years until a detective reopened it in 2003 and submitted evidence for DNA testing. Snelling was already in custody for "sexual indecency" when his DNA was found to match the evidence from Adele's murder, leading to his arrest. More information on Adele's murder can be found at Killer’s sentence overturned and STATE v. SNELLING. See Adele Curtis: Obituary.