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Help Solve the Murders of Teenage Girls in Oregon

By David Lohr

Kelly Disney, 17, was the first girl in a presumed series of five teenage girls to disappear under suspicious and similar circumstances.  She apparently vanished on March 9, 1984, and was last seen alive on U.S. Highway 20, east of Newport along Oregon's scenic coast.  Her skull was found 10 years later, in 1994, inside an abandoned vehicle near Big Creek Reservoir, a popular fishing area east of Newport. Kelly's cause of death has never been determined. On May 3, 1992, Melissa Sanders, 17, and Sheila Swanson, 19, disappeared from the area of Beverly Beach State Park, where they had been camping.  They had last been seen making a call from a pay telephone booth.  Their bodies were found five months later, on October 10, 1992, by hunters in a wooded area near Eddyville, Oregon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).