Lssayv has suggested Yvette Watson as a match on another thread (Walker Co Jane), but I wonder if she could be Cali? Yvette went missing from the UK in April of 1979.
http://www.norfolk.police.uk/newsandevents/unsolvedcases/missingpersons/yvettewatson.aspx
And yes there was drag racing in England:
Santa Pod and Blackbushe Drags 1979 - YouTube
Little Lulu suggested her last year. She's been on our running list but not submitted as far as I know. My doubt is in the isotope testing.
Yvette Anne Watson NCMEC
Case Type: Endangered Runaway
DOB: Aug 4, 1961 Sex: Female
Missing Date: Mar 30, 1979 Race:
Age Now: 52 Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
Missing City: NORWICH Weight: Unknown
Missing State : Norfolk Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United Kingdom Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: UK0279NORF4187
Circumstances: Yvette who is originally from the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk went missing from the David Rice Hospital mental health unit (now disused) in Norwich on 30/03/1979 where she was being treated for depression. She has not been seen since. At the time she went missing she was described as 5'6 tall, thin or slight build, fresh complexion with brown collar length hair, blue eyes and was well spoken. She may have been wearing a jacket, blue jeans and brown cord skirt when she was last seen.
I say submit Cheryl Hanson, Mary Leah Rodermund, Kathleen Rodgers, and Delores Stanton. I'd rather have more rule-outs than what ifs.
Mary Leah is from Louisiana, and my instinct has always been to check in the Bayou/Cajun... I could be right or wrong...
I feel she should be submitted; but personally; I doubt it. She's suspected killed by a serial killer. I'd love to find more about her; what her family life was like. My biggest doubt is that if she was not taken by him; how did she get to NY? Did she use that time to play a cruel joke on her family & run away; then shot by the side of the road?
Robert Carl Hohenberger is a name that likely still strikes fear in the hearts and minds of native St. Mary Parish residents who are more than a few decades old.
Hohenberger may have been Morgan City, Louisiana’s first known serial killer. No one knows for certain what caused the former California police officer to victimize and kill in the manner in which he did.
The body of one of his young victims, 16-year old Leah Rodermund, was never found, leaving her family with more questions than answers. Rodermund disappeared in March of 1978 while on her way to a drugstore in Morgan City. Her parents reportedly received a ransom call from Hohenberger, but never heard from their daughter again.
http://www.examiner.com/article/morgan-city-louisiana-serial-killer-profile-robert-carl-hohenberger
Trying to catch up; already had google links before going back a page.
Article mentions her brother
Robert Karl Hohenberger Murderpedia
Doug Rodermund remembers the uncertainty and fear that gripped St. Mary Parish that year when Hohenberger, a former California lawman, is believed to have kidnapped and killed five teenagers.
Rodermund was 17 then. The body of his little sister, Mary Leah, was never found.
"Everybody was pretty much afraid to go out in the evenings," Rodermund said recently from Houston. His parents relocated there years ago, soon after their 16-year-old daughter's disappearance. "For three or four months it was sheer terror."
Mary Leah Rodermund disappeared on her way to a Morgan City drugstore in early March. Her captor called her parents demanding money and let her tell them she was all right. The Rodermunds never saw Mary Leah again.
"He wasn't one of those that would hide to do what he did," Duval said. "It was always in public."
And always on Thursday evenings, just after dark, Arthur said. Hohenberger took his victims from public places like shopping centers, convenience stores and Morgan City streets. Profilers from the FBI helped local investigators in that case as well, but the break police needed came from the killer's penchant for public abductions.
According to news reports, several men saw Hohenberger's last two victims, 14-year-old Martha Gould and 15-year-old Judy Adams, talking with a strange man, and followed him. Their description tipped off a police officer in Tacoma, Wash., who looked at buying a car from Hohenberger.
When officers tried to arrest Hohenberger, he struggled with one of them, news reports said, and his gun "went off," killing him.
"We didn't want him to die. We had a lot of unanswered questions," Doug Rodermund said. "Like what he did with my sister."
Article with photo of him (Nameless mentioned it in post #1299
Police officer sought car, found fugitive died May 31, 1978
