Susan Poole was 15 when she vanished just before Christmas 1972. She was living between her family’s trailer park in Broward County, Florida, and an apartment where a friend lived. Her disappearance was sudden: clothes and her pocketbook were left behind at the friend’s apartment and no one knew where she had gone. She had dropped out of high school and was known to frequent the Fort Lauderdale area.

In June 1974 skeletal remains were found in a remote mangrove area off Highway A1A in Palm Beach County. The bones were bound with wire to a tree and could not be identified at the time. In 2021 new DNA work allowed a Texas forensic lab doing genetic genealogy to build a profile, and in March 2022 the remains were identified as Susan Poole by matches to her mother and siblings. Investigators note the body was tied to a tree in a manner similar to victims linked to Gerard Schaefer, a former police officer and convicted killer who operated in the region in the early 1970s; detectives consider him the prime suspect, though no physical evidence definitively links him to Poole’s death. The case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Susan in Broward or Palm Beach County in 1972 have contact or details that could help investigators?