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Dirty creek, old purse solve four-decade mystery

[...] the 17-year-old girls weren't known for frequenting parties, so when they didn't show up, other teens just assumed they had changed plans, perhaps to avoid any underage drinking or pot smoking. [...] the 43-year-old mystery of their disappearance has been solved, largely by the ebb and flow of a dirty creek and the contents of a well-preserved purse. After visiting Miller's ailing grandmother at a hospital, the girls met up with some boys at a church parking lot and started to follow them to the quarry. In the following weeks, volunteers and law-enforcement officers searched the gravel pit, surrounding roads and even the nearby Missouri River. The mystery persisted, year after year, for more than four decades, tormenting the girls' families, baffling investigators and inviting false allegations against a sex offender. At one point, the state's cold case unit reopened the investigation after a prison snitch implicated a fellow classmate who had lived nearby and was behind bars for raping a woman. A picture of Mount Rushmore on the white license plate was clearly visible, as were the green registration numbers. Miller's purse was intact, containing her driver's license, coins, a couple of letters from friends and other items, all in relatively good shape for being submerged for so long. Ray Hofman, who knew the Miller family and searched for the teens during his career with the Vermillion Police Department, said the two probably lost track of the narrow, dusty road and accidentally drove into the creek.

 

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