In February 1973 the St. Germaine family were staying at the Lake Edge Motel on State Route 9 in Peru, New York, after a house fire. Twelve-year-old Linda Lee St. Germaine, described as having brown hair, blue eyes and a distinctive birthmark running from the center of her chin to her throat, was last seen outside the motel on the evening of February 13 wearing a blue or green hooded parka, brown corduroy pants and brown suede boots. When she did not come in for dinner her mother reported her missing to the New York State Police.

Linda had told her brother she planned to walk across the frozen surface of Lake Champlain to Burlington, Vermont. Investigators found footprints from the motel onto the lake that continued toward Valcour Island and stopped in an area known for thin ice. Search teams, including the New York State Police Underwater Recovery Team on later occasions, have not recovered her or produced definitive evidence. The case is officially classified Lost/Injured Missing.

Does anyone have memories of the Lake Edge Motel, the area of the lake near Valcour Island, or information that could help explain what happened to Linda?