Fourteen-year-old Charlotte Jean Loomis vanished in late summer 1972 while visiting family in Eatontown, New Jersey. She had been staying with her brother’s wife and was due to fly from Newark International Airport back to Michigan, specifically to Midland Bay City Saginaw International Airport, to return to her parents. Her luggage arrived at the Michigan airport, but Charlotte never did; she was never seen or heard from again.

Charlotte is described as a white female, blonde hair, blue eyes, about 5 feet 2 inches and 115 pounds, with a scar on her forehead and a previously fractured forearm. The Eatontown Police Department has handled the investigation and the case has been listed as endangered missing and shared with national missing-children organizations; age-progressed photos have been circulated. Very little concrete evidence or witness information has emerged, and the fact that her baggage completed the journey without her remains a central unresolved detail.

Does anyone have memories of Charlotte in New Jersey in 1972 or information about that Newark-to-Michigan flight that could help fill the gaps?