Paula Red Riding Hood
That day, the last time she was seen by anybody, Paula was wearing a Red jacket with a fur-trimmed hood, blue jeans, and white sneakers. She had a small, gold wrist watch with a narrow black band. It was 50 degrees when Paula left the campus, which explained her light clothing, but by the evening, temperatures dropped dramatically. By Monday morning, it was 9 degrees in Bennington.
A man teaching his son how to tend to bees in Bennington, 1914. Photo by Granger / Shutterstock
Paula was seen by a few other students heading towards Route 67A. Danny Fager, who was at the gas station across from the college’s entrance, saw Paula walking down the road at about 2:30 pm. Louis Knapp picked her up at around 2:45 pm and drove her as far as his home on Route 9, which was about 3 miles from the trail where she planned to hike.