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July 21, 1974
Jean Schoen, known as Jeanie, 9, was asked to go to the store for a pack of smokes for her uncle. The store was just two blocks away from the house. The clerk told investigators that Jeanie purchased the cigarettes, but forgot them at the store. She returned to retrieve her purchase, the clerk said. Jeanie told the clerk that she was going to go to a place called The Hangout with the change from the smokes to play pinball. She never returned home.
August 1, 1974
Annette and Mylette Anderson were taken from their Jacksonville home on August 1, 1974 -- less than two weeks after Jeanie's disappearance. Annette was just 11, and her little sister Mylette, just 6. They were left alone only briefly when their mother and their older sister went to visit a sick sister. Their father was headed home after a day of fishing. He even called home and spoke to the girls to check on them at 7 p.m. The father could hear the dog barking in the background of the phone call, but Annette assured him the dog is barking at birds in the front yard. When the father called again at 7:20 p.m. no one answered the phone. Police believe that in this short 20-minute window the girls went missing.
Sept. 27, 1974
Virginia Helm was on her way to the store for soap when she disappeared. Forty-five minutes after she left home, Virginia’s father became worried about his 12-year-old daughter and went looking for her, but he wouldn’t find her. A search was conducted and many people were interviewed. Some witnesses reported seeing a red compact vehicle. This car would become important when, three days after she disappeared, a couple came upon a troubling scene. A red VW Bug was pulled over to the side of the road New Kings Road near the Nassau/Duval border. A couple approached to see if the man needed help. In the backseat, they spotted a young girl, matching Virginia’s description, with her knees on the floorboards and her hands on the seat as if she was attempting to get up. Her pupils were dilated, she was looking back and forth rapidly as if she was scared, but she didn’t say anything. When the couple confronted the man, he took off in a rush leaving behind a bag that fell out of the car.
Ted Bundy, who would kill a girl in Lake City in 1978, was said to drive a VW Bug. The connection has been taken into consideration. He was, however, committing murders in Washington state in 1974.
Oct. 16, 1974
Twelve-year-old Rebecca Greene was headed home from the store, only five blocks from her home, when she vanished without a trace like the four girls before her. She made it to the store, according to the clerk, but she never returned home. Searches for her turned up nothing. Rebecca wouldn’t be found until three years later when her skeletal remains were located off Fort Georgia Island near the mouth of the St. Johns River in the summer of 1977.
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/arti...nd-the-tumultuous-summer-of-1974/77-551200984
Jean Schoen, known as Jeanie, 9, was asked to go to the store for a pack of smokes for her uncle. The store was just two blocks away from the house. The clerk told investigators that Jeanie purchased the cigarettes, but forgot them at the store. She returned to retrieve her purchase, the clerk said. Jeanie told the clerk that she was going to go to a place called The Hangout with the change from the smokes to play pinball. She never returned home.
August 1, 1974
Annette and Mylette Anderson were taken from their Jacksonville home on August 1, 1974 -- less than two weeks after Jeanie's disappearance. Annette was just 11, and her little sister Mylette, just 6. They were left alone only briefly when their mother and their older sister went to visit a sick sister. Their father was headed home after a day of fishing. He even called home and spoke to the girls to check on them at 7 p.m. The father could hear the dog barking in the background of the phone call, but Annette assured him the dog is barking at birds in the front yard. When the father called again at 7:20 p.m. no one answered the phone. Police believe that in this short 20-minute window the girls went missing.
Sept. 27, 1974
Virginia Helm was on her way to the store for soap when she disappeared. Forty-five minutes after she left home, Virginia’s father became worried about his 12-year-old daughter and went looking for her, but he wouldn’t find her. A search was conducted and many people were interviewed. Some witnesses reported seeing a red compact vehicle. This car would become important when, three days after she disappeared, a couple came upon a troubling scene. A red VW Bug was pulled over to the side of the road New Kings Road near the Nassau/Duval border. A couple approached to see if the man needed help. In the backseat, they spotted a young girl, matching Virginia’s description, with her knees on the floorboards and her hands on the seat as if she was attempting to get up. Her pupils were dilated, she was looking back and forth rapidly as if she was scared, but she didn’t say anything. When the couple confronted the man, he took off in a rush leaving behind a bag that fell out of the car.
Ted Bundy, who would kill a girl in Lake City in 1978, was said to drive a VW Bug. The connection has been taken into consideration. He was, however, committing murders in Washington state in 1974.
Oct. 16, 1974
Twelve-year-old Rebecca Greene was headed home from the store, only five blocks from her home, when she vanished without a trace like the four girls before her. She made it to the store, according to the clerk, but she never returned home. Searches for her turned up nothing. Rebecca wouldn’t be found until three years later when her skeletal remains were located off Fort Georgia Island near the mouth of the St. Johns River in the summer of 1977.
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/arti...nd-the-tumultuous-summer-of-1974/77-551200984
