On June 22, 1979, 11-year-old Karen Reinert and her 10-year-old brother Michael were last seen leaving their Ardmore, Pennsylvania, home with their mother, Susan Reinert, at about 9:20 p.m. The family said they were headed to meet Susan’s boyfriend and colleague, William Bradfield. Three days later Susan’s car was found at a Host Inn in Swatara Township; her nude body was discovered in the trunk, having been beaten and killed by an injection of morphine.

The children were never found. Local and state police and the FBI conducted searches, but no trace of Karen or Michael was recovered. The investigation centered on colleagues at Upper Merion High School, including Bradfield and the principal Jay Smith. Bradfield was later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and Smith was also convicted, yet neither disclosed the children’s whereabouts. Bradfield died in prison in 1998; a photograph among his effects of what appears to be an unmarked grave prompted speculation but did not produce the children.

Karen and Michael were declared legally dead in 1987, but their physical whereabouts remain unknown. Does anyone have memories of the family or information about that weekend in June 1979 that could help close this case?