Charlotte Kinsey was 13 when she vanished from the Oklahoma State Fair in Oklahoma City on September 26, 1981. She and friend Cinda Pallett had been allowed to attend the fair on their own and around 5:00 p.m. Charlotte phoned her mother to say a carnival worker had offered them a job unloading stuffed animals. Both girls were last seen at the fairgrounds about 5:30 p.m.; a promised 9:00 p.m. call to arrange a ride home never happened.

Two teenage boys later told police the same man had driven them and the girls to a truck stop off Interstate 40 to meet a truck that never showed up; the man paid the boys and then left with Charlotte and Cinda. A composite described a 35 to 50-year-old bearded man in a cowboy hat with a belt reading Joseph. Investigators focused on Royal Russell Long after forensic work on a rented Pontiac Grand Prix found Cinda’s scalp hairs and luminol-reactive staining in the trunk. Long was charged in 1985, but the judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence and he was never retried. The girls’ bodies have never been found and the disappearances remain unsolved.

Does anyone who attended the Oklahoma State Fair that September remember the man or that Pontiac Grand Prix?