OR Susan Wickersham, 17, Unsolved Murder in Bend, OR 1973

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On July 11th, 1973 at 11:30pm, 17 year-old Susan Wickersham dropped the family car off at her mother's workplace, and left to wait across the street for her friends to pick her up to drive her home. When they didn’t arrive, she decided to walk home. It was only a 2 mile walk home in the sleepy, rural town of Bend, OR. Susan was never seen alive again. In 1976, her remains were found only a few miles south of town. She had been shot behind the right ear with a small caliber gun. Susan's case can STILL be solved. Police believe they know who the killer is, they just need someone to speak up!

Both Ted Bundy and John Arthur Ackroyd have been ruled out as neither was near Bend at the time of Susan's disappearance.

• Questions, pain linger: Who killed Susan Wickersham? - KTVZ
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Cold case files for Deschutes County Sheriff's office.

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Susan Ann Wickersham​

''Date Missing: July 11, 1973
DOB 11/21/1955

Wickersham was a seventeen year old girl who was born and raised in Bend and had just finished her junior year at Bend High School. She is described by her friends as a likeable young lady with a bubbly outgoing personality. On the evening of July 11, 1973 Wickersham and a friend had been cruising town in her mother’s car. After taking her friend home, Wickersham delivered the car to the Sage Room Restaurant (in downtown Bend near the Tower Theater) where her mother worked. Wickersham told her mother that friends were going to pick her up in front of the restaurant and take her home. Wickersham left the restaurant at about 11:30 PM and was last seen walking toward the Owl Rexall Drug Store on Wall Street. On January 20, 1976 skeletal remains and some personal items were found by a wood cutter approximately five miles south of Bend in a wooded area behind a weigh station on Hwy 97. The remains were identified as Wickersham through dental records and the recovered personal items. Examination of the skull by the state medical examiner’s office determined Wickersham had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.''

Who Killed Susan Wickersham? Police Still Hope For Proof

The 17-year-old disappeared from a small town, and investigators think one clue could be all it takes to reveal her murderer.

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