Pamela Sue Hobley was 15 when she and 16-year-old Patricia Ann Spencer disappeared from Oscoda, Michigan, on Friday, October 31, 1969. The girls were last seen at about 2:00 p.m. walking east along East River Road after leaving Oscoda High School on a day that included the homecoming football game and Halloween activities they planned to attend. Neither reached the game or the party that evening.
Pamela was described as a white female with long brown hair, brown eyes, 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall and 100 to 115 pounds, with scars at the left side of her mouth and across the bridge of her nose. She wore a three-quarter-length white fur-like coat with brown trim, a brown-and-white plaid skirt, long-sleeved blouse with ruffled cuffs, white cotton knee socks and chunky shoes with thick heels. Neither girl had a purse, identification, extra clothing or other belongings when last seen, a fact that undermined the initial runaway theory.
A witness later said he gave the two girls a ride into downtown Oscoda; other accounts place them at a nearby gas station. Over the decades investigators have re-interviewed witnesses and revisited leads. Authorities now believe foul play is likely, but the girls’ fates remain unresolved and both families never learned what happened.
Did anyone in Oscoda at the time remember seeing Pamela or Patricia on October 31, 1969, or know anyone who might have driven them that afternoon?