On a rainy Thursday morning in May 1938, hundreds of employees from Western Pennsylvania were given the day off to look for a missing girl. They walked through the tangled underbrush alongside police, bloodhounds, WWI veterans, Native Americans, coal miners, and hundreds of others who responded to the call to look for four-year-old Marjorie West.
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Marjorie was on a picnic with her family on Mother’s Day 1938 when she disappeared without a trace. For decades, her disappearance captivated the nation. Although the case went cold, many people have their theories about what happened all those years ago. “She could still be living,” Marjorie’s cousin said in 2018. But there’s one theory that seems to outweigh the rest.
This is the story of Marjorie West’s disappearance.