May 6, 2024
For Bonnie Lee Dages, 1993 was supposed to be the beginning of her adult life. She had just earned her GED, gave birth to a baby boy, bought a minivan, and moved out of her parent’s home. But about six weeks after she turned 18, she and her four-month-old son vanished without a trace.
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<<Bradley described her sister as gifted. She said she was passionate about music and photography, but her first love was horses. >>
<<When she was 17, Bonnie earned her GED, just weeks before she gave birth to a baby boy, Jeremy>>
<<Hersberger recalls them telling her that Bonnie had been regularly seeing an older man, who was in his 40s, and that was who she was going to meet at the grocery store the night before. They said she often met this man at night but was always home in the morning. Now, it was after noon, and they were concerned.>>
<<"I think any mother or father with babies, the car seat goes from the locked position in the car in that carrier and you either take the baby out of the carrier and bring the baby in or you take the carrier in the house," Bendig stated. "The carrier was found in the trunk of the vehicle and that’s very odd. When I first opened the case, that was the first big thing that told me something was strange about her disappearance, because no mom, no dad is putting a baby car seat, especially with a 4-month-old, in the trunk area of a minivan." >>
<<"The women told police Bonnie was going to Kash N’ Karry to meet her boyfriend to give him $15,000. They were going into a business deal together, so she was going to do this with money she just inherited when she turned 18, which was in March, and then now, we’re in April, so she had only had the money for a month," Hersberger explained. "Other people tried to borrow some of the money from her, and she decided not to do that, but because this was her boyfriend, she was going to go into business with him, which we don’t think was a real business, but she’s 18 so she doesn’t know much of anything." >>
<<Over the last 31 years, several people have called in tips to the sheriff’s office, but nothing has ever panned out. However, a tip left 15 years ago seemed to have credible information and the Dages family is pleading for the tipster to call back with more details. >>
<<Bendig said the caller has left several tips over the past 15 years and investigators are urging that person to call back>>
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