Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 08/04/1974
- Missing From:
- Missing From Rawlins, Wyoming
- Classification:
- Classification Non-Family Abduction
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 10/20/1959 (65)
- Age:
- Age 14 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’4, 115 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Deborah has a small circular growth on her left ear, about the size of a pencil eraser. She wears a full set of dentures.
- Details of Disappearance:
- Deborah, a teenager from Montana, vanished while visiting family in Rawlins, Wyoming, on August 4, 1974. She left a relative’s house to go to the movies but never arrived. She’s never been seen or heard from since.
Her disappearance wasn’t isolated. Three other young women went missing in Rawlins around the same time: Carlene Brown and Christy Gross disappeared from the town fair in July, and Jayleen Banker vanished from the fairgrounds in August. Sadly, Jayleen and Christy were later found murdered.
Police suspect Royal Russell Long, who lived in Rawlins and worked at fairs, might be connected to these disappearances and murders. He was convicted of kidnapping but not of these crimes, though he was a suspect. He died in prison in 1993.
Carlene and Deborah are still missing. Deborah’s family believes she was not a runaway. The police suspect foul play in Deborah’s case.
- Agency:
- Carbon County Sheriff’s Department 307-324-2776
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This person was missing Missing Since 08/04/1974