the behest of her parents, though Fernando Robles at one point announced that he had accepted an offer to exhibit his daughter in a vaudeville show. Bryan Foy and Sid Grauman both approached Robles, hoping to sign her for personal appearances. A year and five days after June was recovered, an unnamed dying man came forward with more evidence, implicating three people, and J. Edgar Hoover announced that the case had been solved. However, the deathbed confession did not result in any convictions. Two and a half years later, the investigation was reopened due to "sensational discoveries." However, no charges were brought against anybody. For nearly the next 80 years, Robles led a fairly anonymous and routine life, and remained in Tucson. Although the kidnapping was discussed in newspapers and on television on occasion, she never gave any subsequent interviews or wrote any memoirs. A wedding announcement in 1950 did not mention her ordeal. She died of complications of Parkinson's disease at age 87 in Tucson on September 2, 2014. Her family placed a paid death notice in The Arizona Daily Star under her married name, June Birt, but apparently no news obituary was written until The New York Times learned of her death three years later, as the result of an e-mailed inquiry from a writer who was researching another child abduction for a book. In popular culture A play, June In A Box by Octavio Solis, was based on the Robles kidnapping. It premiered at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco on March 6, 2008. See also List of kidnappings List of solved missing person cases References Further reading British Pathe: Newsreel interview with June Robles The Girl Locked in the Desert Cage 1927 births 1930s missing person cases 2014 deaths American people of Mexican descent American people taken hostage Deaths from Parkinson's disease Formerly missing people Kidnapped American children Missing person cases in Arizona People from Tucson, Arizona