Robin Leslie Losch was 14 when she disappeared from Fort Lauderdale after summer classes at Stranahan High School and was reported missing by her parents on July 8, 1975. She was last seen at a local grocery store. Two days later, on July 10, a vacationing family found her partially submerged body in a canal off U.S. Highway 27 in a remote area near the Everglades in western Broward County; one arm was visible above the waterline, protruding from dense aquatic vegetation.

Found fully clothed, the autopsy ruled her death a drowning. Investigators noted no immediate signs of sexual assault or blunt force trauma; marijuana was reportedly in her jeans pocket, though it was not publicly linked to the cause or circumstances of death. The body was discovered about half a mile from where two other 14-year-old girls, Barbara Schreiber and Belinda Zetterower, had been found weeks earlier, a detail that raised suspicion of a serial offender in the region.

The case has been associated with the 1975 South Florida Canal Murders or Flat-Tire Murders. Breakthroughs in 2023 and 2025 linked two other victims to deceased suspects, but authorities do not believe those men are connected to Robin’s death. Her case remains officially unsolved and no arrests have been made. Did anyone who lived or worked near U.S. Highway 27 in July 1975 see anything that might help explain how Robin ended up in that canal?