1950-1959

Connie told her tent mates she planned to skip breakfast and walk back to the dispensary to drop off the ice pack. However, she left the ice pack in her tent and never visited the dispensary. Instead, Connie walked away from Camp Sloane to Indian Mountain Road and disappeared.

The family settled in for the night. Annie Moore slept in a back bedroom while her grandmother stayed in an adjoining room off her parents’ front bedroom. Around 10:10 p.m., Annie turned off the bedroom light to go to sleep. Rosa Moore had not yet fallen into slumber when she noticed an overhead light fixture drop to the floor. Next came a deafening roar.

“He said he would have to take me to Atlantic City because the government insisted I go there. He said it wouldn’t take long to straighten things out. He telephoned my mother and said he was taking some other girls to Atlantic City and would have to take me.”

U.S. Navy veteran Dwane Roy Dreher, 33, disappeared on Nov. 7, 1955, after visiting his father in Mason City, Iowa. Police found his car the next day with his belongings still inside. There were a couple of unconfirmed sightings, but authorities never found the father of three. While there has been no police activity on Dwane’s disappearance since 1955, it remains an open investigation. 

In November 1956, Audrey Moate vanished after an unidentified gunman killed her lover as the couple sat parked in a secluded area in Louisiana. A strange phone call and a couple of sightings of the young woman raised the possibility she survived. However, police never found her, and the case remains unsolved 65 years later.