Thirteen-year-old Teresa Lynn Rhodes, known as Teri, left her South Greensburg, Pennsylvania home around 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 27, 1975, telling her mother she was going to a friend’s house. She left all personal belongings behind, including her purse. Teri was a seventh-grade student at St. Paul’s Middle School, described as fun-loving, 5 feet 3 inches tall, 120 pounds, with long brown hair, hazel eyes, a dimple on her left cheek and a scar on her upper lip from a dog bite. She was last seen wearing red pants and a red and white jacket.

Initially treated as a probable runaway, the case was reopened in 1982 after family pleas. Investigators learned Teri had been spending time at parties with older people and associating with several questionable adult men, including a former police officer later convicted in an unrelated murder-for-hire case and another man described as a pedophile involved with drugs. A friend later said they went to a party house on Bell Way in Greensburg on the day Teri disappeared; the friend left around 6:00 p.m. with a man, leaving Teri behind.

Foul play is strongly suspected and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Teri, the party house on Bell Way, or was in Greensburg that day, please share any information that might help locate her or explain what happened.