Georgia Caroline Geer was 14 when she disappeared from Dickinson, Texas, on September 6, 1974, after skipping school with a 12-year-old friend, Brooks Bracewell. The pair were last seen at a local convenience store. At the time Dickinson lacked its own police department and the Galveston County Sheriff’s deputy who took the initial report treated the case as two runaways.

In 1976 an oil rig worker found a human skull near Alvin, Texas; the remains were identified in 1981 as Georgia’s. Decades later, convicted killer Edward Harold Bell began sending letters to prosecutors claiming responsibility for the deaths of multiple young girls, referring to them as the Eleven that went to Heaven and saying he had been brainwashed. Those letters were not followed by a formal investigation and were later reported lost.

Georgia’s death is unsolved and her family continues to seek answers. If anyone knew Georgia, Brooks Bracewell, or saw them in Dickinson in early September 1974, does that memory help explain what happened?