Mary Leah Rodermund was 16 and a sophomore at Morgan City High School when she left home on the evening of March 2, 1978, to run an errand at a drugstore on Victor II Boulevard. Her car was found abandoned in the store parking lot and she never returned. She was the youngest of six children and had hoped to attend college to become a psychiatrist; she enjoyed dancing, music, and spending time with her boyfriend.

Investigators later linked her case to a string of abductions and murders in the Morgan City area in spring 1978. Authorities identified Robert Carl Hohenberger, a former California sheriff’s deputy living under an alias, as the primary suspect; he died by suicide in June 1978 as police closed in. Mary Rodermund and another girl, Bertha Gould, remain missing and her disappearance is classified as a non-family abduction and suspected homicide.

If anyone knew Mary, saw her car that night, or has information about her disappearance, please come forward.