50 years on, America’s oldest missing teens case might finally be cracked
In 1973 Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit disappeared after heading to a concert but their case wasn’t acted upon – now it has been reopened
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''Fifty years on, nobody knows whether they ever made it, with their disappearance having now secured the grim status of America’s oldest missing teens case in history.
For the first time in half a century, however, there has finally been cause for hope. In August, New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered state police to reopen the case following an in-depth report by Rolling Stone magazine that sparked new leads; New York Senator Chuck Schumer has also asked the FBI to investigate the gifted teens’ disappearance, for which no motive has ever been found.
The prospect of resolving the mystery that has played on his mind for the vast majority of his life is “amazing,” says Karten, now 66, hoping that this “huge step” might go the way of the Gilgo Beach murders – where in July, a suspected serial killer was arrested in reopened cases from a quarter of a century ago. Putting Mitchel and Bonnie’s case back on officers’ desks is not only a chance for resolution, but redemption: a chance to right some of the myriad wrongs that derailed the “botched” investigations of 50 years before.''
