Arkay
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RBBM, I don't think so. In 1973 there were no over the counter pregnancy tests. In fact, most tests were not only done by a laboratory, but had to be sent to a special lab for formal tests. This would have been too expensive for two teenagers to afford. So if Bonnie was pregnant, it would have more than likely be a "I haven't had a period in awhile" kind of confirmation rather than a formal test. Prenatal care was just becoming a major medical thing in the early 70s.
Bonnie being pregnant is conjecture. As are all other theories in this case because so little is known about their whereabouts. I think that's the biggest reason this case sticks with me. They literally just vanished without a trace.
I knew Mitch and Bonnie in high school. I don’t know anything about how pregnancy tests were conducted back then, but there was another girl in the same year as all of us who had an abortion. That was big, big news then, and we were all minors, but somehow she (the other girl, not Bonnie) had to have found out she was pregnant in order to abort. Looking back she must have had her parents’ permission as she was 16 or so. On the off chance that Bonnie was pregnant and therefore ran away, she would not still be hiding out from her family. They were surely killed and never recovered. My hope lies in the advances in DNA that may identify their remains if ever found.