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In the spring of 1972, a group of eighteen children and four adults from a Paterson, New Jersey orphanage embarked on a weeklong camping trip in the sprawling woodlands of Bass River State Forest. Among them was twelve-year-old Donald Caldwell, a young boy with black hair and brown eyes. On the evening of April 3, 1972, as the group settled into their campsite, Donald and a sixteen-year-old friend, Steven Soden, vanished without a trace. The two boys were last seen that night and were never hear ...Read More
Last Seen: Apr 03, 1972

Victim Details

May 22, 2013

Sep 25, 2019

Donald

Caldwell

65

12

60 inches

100 lbs

Black / African American

Male

Apr 03, 1972

Tuckerton

New Jersey

Ocean County

08087

28775

New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit

West Trenton

New Jersey

Mercer County

08628

Stephen Urbanski

Detective

PO Box 7068, New Jersey

6098822000

State

Law Enforcement

New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit

Black

Brown

Brown

No

06/03/2026


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