Rhonda Renee Johnson was 13 when she disappeared after a day at a Galveston beach on August 4, 1971. She and 14-year-old Sharon Shaw were last seen walking on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston; both girls’ bodies were recovered in early 1972 in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. Rhonda’s skull was found floating in the lake and her remains were later identified in a marsh near the lake.

A local gas station attendant, Michael Lloyd Self, was arrested and charged in 1972; he was convicted in 1975 for Sharon Shaw’s murder and sentenced to life. In 1998 convicted killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to both murders, and statements were later made that Self had been coerced into a false confession. Self died in prison in 2000. Despite the confession by Bell, the murders of Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw are still described as unsolved and no definitive resolution is noted.

Does anyone have information about Rhonda’s activities that day, or recollections of Seawall Boulevard on August 4, 1971?