Wendy Eaton, a 15-year-old Penncrest sophomore from Middletown, disappeared without a trace 50 years ago.
Police are still searching for her, and it is a case that has “haunted the community for half a century,” according to Pennsylvania State Police.
With modern forensic techniques now available, police are again reaching out to the public for any information in the case, writes Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“As we mark the 50th anniversary of Wendy’s disappearance, the Pennsylvania State Police and her family continue to seek answers and urge the public to come forward with any information,” authorities said in a statement.
Eaton disappeared on May 17, 1975, last seen at the intersection of Indian Lane and Media Station Road in Middletown.
Search dogs tracked her scent to that intersection, then lost the trail.
Investigators and Eaton’s parents pursued leads that she had been abducted or joined a religious cult, but they found nothing.
On May 17, 2021, investigators were seen digging in a wooded area behind a home near the intersection where Eaton was last seen, and the case was relabeled from missing person to homicide. There’s been no public police comment on whether anything was found.
Find out more details about Wendy Eaton’s disappearance in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
