Elsie Lina Farmer was a 13-year-old girl from Broward County, Florida who disappeared on October 23, 1972, while hitchhiking with her 14-year-old friend Mary Alice Briscolina. Both girls were last seen that day and reported missing soon after. Their remains were recovered January 17, 1973, at a construction site in Plantation, Florida; the cause of death was determined to be homicide, with evidence suggesting they had been bludgeoned.

Their deaths were later examined as part of a wider inquiry into Gerard John Schaefer, a former Martin County sheriff’s deputy convicted in 1973 for the murders of two other teenage girls and suspected in many additional killings. Circumstantial links in other cases included items from missing girls found in Schaefer’s possession and writings that mirrored violent crimes, and he was suspected but never formally charged in Elsie Farmer’s murder. Schaefer was serving a life term and was killed by an inmate in 1995.

Does anyone have memories, documents, or information about Elsie’s last known movements or the area where the girls were picked up that could help clarify what happened?