Mrs. Jane Astrid Knudsen Morris & Dr. Gary O. Morris died in March of 1972 when their boat mysteriously disappeared off the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia. Their bodies were never found. But their names were on the dead body of Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, according to an article in the Oct. 3, 1975 Washington Post.
Jane (Astrid Knudsen) Morris was invited to a tea party given by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain in 1971. Gary accompanied Jane to the event. Astrid Knudsen was an author like Hunt in Stockholm in the mid 60s. She probably worked in the European Division of the DD/P.
Newspaper story:
“A psychiatrist and his wife have been reported missing of the island of St. Lucia, in the Caribbean. Dr. and Mrs. Gary O. Morris set out Friday in a 15 foot motorboat from the Halcyon Beach Club hotel for a picnic on Pigeon Island, about three miles away. With them was a local captain Mervin Augustin. When the three failed to return by Friday night, the hotel manager flew out to look for them, according to the Associated Press. U.S Coast Guard, British and private aircraft searched the seas off the British protectorate over the weekend. The group had two quarts of water, a picnic lunch and a box of ice on board. The Halcyon Management said the Morrises had checked in on Wednesday for four days. Morris practices psychiatry at 4501 Connecticut Ave in Washington. He and his wife have three children.”
No trace was ever found of the 15-foot motorboat or of its three occupants. Dorothy Hunt had been a patient of Dr. Gary Morris under a pseudonym, and their connection was revealed only after Mrs. HUNT died in the crash of United 533 nine months later, when the name and telephone number of Gary Morris were found on her person. The records of Dr. Gary Morris’ patients were not checked to determine if one of them was really Dorothy Hunt. Stuart Knudsen of Ellicott City, Maryland, had the records of Dr. Morris.
Astrid’s brother, Stuart Knudsen: “The only records I have left is a book which he kept of his patients of how much he charged them, and how much they owed him. If I don’t know the pseudonym I wouldn’t know, of course. Maxine Cheshire did a story. Dr. Morris specialized in hypnosis. He may have put her under hypnosis for a back ailment. And while she was under hypnosis she told him about the Ellsberg break-in. That was one scenario, but not what Maxine Cheshire published. Morris only had about 15 patients.”
“The plane crash that killed Mrs. Hunt in Chicago has now been officially ruled an accident,” the story stated. “But there’s one bizarre coincidence that may never be explained.
“Her red wallet at the time of her death had a slip of paper with the name of a Washington psychiatrist, Dr. Gary Morris, on it.”