In late spring 1978, 14-year-old Bertha Yvonne Gould vanished after attending the Central Catholic High School fair in Morgan City, Louisiana. A Caucasian girl with brown hair and hazel eyes, she had recently moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, to live with her parents. On the night of May 11 she and a 15-year-old friend, Judy Ann Adams, were last seen leaving the fair together; a witness later reported seeing the two get into a white car driven by an unknown man.

Two weeks later Judy Adams’s body was recovered from a septic tank in nearby Bayou Vista; she had been bound and strangled. Other victims linked to the same investigation included 19-year-old Bridget Cantrell Sons, found in the same septic tank after an April abduction, and 17-year-old Gordon M. Canella Jr., found in a cane field. Investigators focused on Robert Carl Hohenberger, a former California sheriff’s deputy who had escaped prison, was living in Louisiana under an alias, and had a prior record for abduction and rape. Hohenberger took his own life in June 1978 before he could be arrested. Bertha’s body has never been found and she is listed among the presumed victims connected to Hohenberger.

Does anyone have information about Bertha’s last movements that could help clarify what happened that night?