Bridget Cantrell Sons was 19 and from the Morgan City area when she was taken during a late-April 1978 robbery at a small neighborhood store. She and a teenage boy, Gordon Mark Cannella Jr., were abducted during the holdup. Gordon’s body was later found in a cane field with signs consistent with strangulation. Weeks after the robbery, investigators recovered the body of Judy Adams from a septic tank in Bayou Vista; reports describe both girls as bound and Bridget as strangled.

The disappearances of multiple teenagers in that same spring suggested a pattern rather than isolated incidents. Investigators focused on Robert Carl Hohenberger, an ex-lawman with a history of violent offenses and an earlier escape from custody, who was believed to be using aliases while moving through the area. He became the prime suspect in the cluster of abductions and killings, but the manhunt did not end in trial. Police located Hohenberger in Tacoma, Washington; during an attempted arrest he shot himself with a small-caliber pistol and died later the same day.

Does anyone have information about Bridget, the Morgan City area in 1978, or contacts who remember the investigation?