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Friday July 21st, 1961 was ranked the fourth hottest day in Washington DC that year, coming in at 93 degrees. And so, the children on their summer school break were trying to keep cool. Amongst those was a young girl named Hattie, who went to play at Rock Creek Park with some friends and her older brother. But the water at Rock Creek Park wasn’t safe to swim in and a series of events surrounding this would provide opportunity for Hattie to be placed in danger. At first, there were leads, tips, and attention. But over time, those leads dried up. And now, nearly 64 years later, the questions remain — with no answers in sight. Something we hope some renewed attention to the case can change.

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https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-abduction-suspect/174072564/
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It was a Monday afternoon in July. Leota, a mother of three, was home with her kids, doing the most ordinary of tasks — hanging laundry on the clothesline.
But while she was outside, someone is believed to have slipped into her home and waited.
What happened next shattered her family’s world — and left behind a mystery that’s remained unsolved for decades.
Still, there’s hope. Because every year, cold cases are solved — through advances in technology, and sometimes, because someone finally speaks.

TIPS: Des Moines Police Department at (515) 283-4864 or the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or email at dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.

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https://www.newtondailynews.com/2015/10/05/who-killed-leota-camp/a9zq741/
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/leota-camp/
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/dorothy-miller/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-dorothy-miller-suspect/173625538/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-dorothy-miller/173625468/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-similar-attack/173531041/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune-mary-senne-possible-b/173530798/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-war-on-prowlers/173530339/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-cases-open-in-io/173530185/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune-move-to-trailer/173529637/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-suspect/173529154/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-creepy-phone-cal/173528939/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune-detectives-attend-fun/173528852/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-psychologist-profile-and-fun/173528684/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune-2-knives-used/173528562/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-reward/173509155/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-registe

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In 1979, a woman drops her husband off to his shift at K-Mart in a shopping plaza in Shreveport, Louisiana. She doesn’t make it too far back towards home when she realizes her tire is flat. She pulls over to the side of the road and vanishes. While her husband was immediately fearful of foul play, some recent odd behavior led others to think maybe she had just run away. That was until a second young woman went missing just weeks later, from the same shopping plaza, and also had a punctured tire. This woman’s body would later be found, and the community would begin to panic about a predator in their midst. Real life events blended with tales and urban legends, with similar cases popping up, and evidence of violence lurking in the area. Through the years, investigators have gone through twists and turns, with some suspects in the case seeming more likely than others. But as of today, nobody has been held responsible for what happened to these two young women.

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https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/10/19/shreveport-bossier-womens-disappearances-1979-were-eerily-similar/1607056002/

https://medium.com/@Charlie_OBrien/bossier-doe-the-murder-of-carole-cole-bc86f50f5c57

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-linked-cases/173097457/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-tied-cases/173097538/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-dodie-gay-funeral/173097755/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-dodie-gay-1984-ar/173097898/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-death-trap/173099142/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-reward-offered-in-mary-shinn-c/173099181/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-coincidence/173099246/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-police-probe-abdu/173099368/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-escape/173099399/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-travis-raymond-ca/173099870/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal-young-girl-attemp/173099954/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-trial-carter/173100972/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/shoshone-news-press-wood-arrest/173102481/

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