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Sixteen-year-old Molly Anne Bish was working her eighth day as a lifeguard at Comins Pond in Warren, Massachusetts when she disappeared on the morning of June 27, 2000. Her mother had dropped her off at the lifeguard station; Molly’s open first-aid kit, sandals, and whistle were left beside her chair. The previous day Magi Bish had noticed a mustached man sitting in a white car in the parking lot; on the morning Molly vanished a witness later reported seeing a similar man minutes before Molly arrived.

A hunter found a blue bathing suit like the one Molly had been wearing in fall 2002 on Whiskey Hill in nearby Palmer, triggering a targeted search. Partial remains were recovered in the woods about five miles from her home on June 9, 2003. Because of the condition of the remains, an exact cause of death couldn’t be determined; the case is classified as a homicide.

Investigators have named several suspects or persons of interest over the years, including an unidentified man in a white car, Rodney Stanger, Gerald Battistoni, and more recently Francis Frank P. Sumner Sr., who died in 2016. No arrests have been announced and the murder remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about who the man in the white car might have been or about activity near Comins Pond that morning?