Smith says that the two other hitchhikers in the back were older, perhaps in their midtwenties. He did not talk to them. They stayed in the van the whole time and did not go down to the river. “They never got up or anything,” Smith says. “They were all covered up with sleeping bags and blankets.”
New Leads Emerge in Oldest Missing-Teens Case in America
New leads have emerged in the case of Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit, the oldest missing teens case in America.www.rollingstone.com
Wow that is creepy who were the other 2 people covered in sleeping blankets
Mitchel and Bonnie's dental records were lost, and I think if there were prominent issues with Mitchel's teeth that would "jump out" to a layperson, those would be noted in sources. All I see noted in sources for dentals is that Mitchel's upper front teeth were discolored. Am taking this to be something of an important note in light of the overall circumstances because it shows someone was trying to go ahead and identify points that might be visible to a layperson or through visual examinatio of the teeth.
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I think then that there needs to be information about the camera circulated amongst camera collectors and vintage photography hobby groups. My dad is a collector of old cameras (pre-WW2 though) and I will tell him about this case, even though we are in the UK. Many collectors are happy to purchase from abroad, my dad has bought and sold cameras and parts from Japan, Russia, USA, etc.''In July 2025, New York State cold case investigators launched an unprecedented joint public campaign seeking new information and witnesses in the case. The New York State Police and the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office collaborated on a poster offering a $10,000 reward for information about the disappearance of the teens. The two departments say they have “partnered together to investigate their disappearance with the hopes of bringing closure to Bonnie and Mitch’s loved ones.” The new poster offers never before revealed details about Mitchel’s 1970s Japanese camera, which is now considered a collector’s item. ''
July 25, 2025
View attachment 604286‘Never forgotten’: Investigators renew push to solve 1973 disappearance of Brooklyn teens • Brooklyn Paper
On the morning of July 27, 1973, a teenage couple from Brooklyn set out hitchhiking to upstate New York to attend what would become the largest rock concert
“As far as we can see, they have not done this,” says Karten, who operates a website devoted to the couple. He says the Sullivan detectives should also be adding the multiple websites and podcasts focused on missing persons that would allow thousands of self-proclaimed “web sleuths” to use their informal methods to connect dots and perhaps uncover things the authorities might have missed.''
''Jones notes that Mitchel had a nice camera that may have been given to someone as a gift, though authorities never released its exact model to use as a clue that could help corroborate a potential witness. “What if someone remembered receiving a camera with a partial roll of film with pictures of Mitchel and Bonnie?” Jones asked in the Vanished podcast. ''
