There have been many posts on this thread. Here is a case summary of the known facts for reference.
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Connie Smith, 10, Missing since July 16, 1952 from Salisbury, Connecticut
Connie Smith
Missing Since: July 16, 1952 from Salisbury, Connecticut
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: July 11, 1942
Age: 10 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0, 85 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Light brown hair. Smith was well-developed in 1952 and looked older than her age.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A red windbreaker, blue shorts with plaid trim, and a red hair ribbon.
Case Details:
1. Smith resided in Wyoming at the time of her disappearance.
2. Her grandfather was governor of Wyoming at the time.
3. In the summer of 1952, Connie was spending time at Camp Sloane in Salisbury, Connecticut.
4. On the morning of 16 July 1952, she had an altercation with a group of female campers, and received a bloody nose during the incident.
5. Connie Smith told her tent mates that she was skipping breakfast that morning and would instead walk to the camp dispensary to drop off an ice pack used the previous evening for a bruise to her hip, which she received when she had fallen out of her tent.
6. Rather than go to the dispensary, however, she walked away from the camp and down Indian Mountain Road. (The Ice pack was later found inside her tent.)
7. Witnesses claimed to have seen her picking daisies along the roadside. She also reportedly asked several people how sh could get to Lakeville, Connecticut, about a half mile from Camp Sloane.
8. The last reported sighting of a girl, believed to be Connie Smith, was later in the day. She was walking on US Route 44 in Salisbury with her thumb out and apparently attempting to hitchhike, possibly to Lakeville.
9. Camp Counselors discovered Connie's absence in the afternoon hours and began a search for her. She has never been found.
10. Connie's time at camp was scheduled to end in another week. The main theory is that she wanted to leave early and return to one or the other of her divorced parents. Neither father nor mother ever saw her or heard from her again.
Source Information
The Hartford Courant
NewspaperArchive
The Doe Network
NewsLibrary
Twilight of Innocence: the Disappearance of Beverly Potts by James Jessen Badal
Porchlight International for the Missing & Unidentified
The Charley Project
LINK:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/smith_connie.html