Deborah Lee Spickler was 13 when she vanished from Vernon, Connecticut, on July 24, 1968, while visiting her aunt and uncle. She and a cousin were walking from Foxhill Drive toward the Henry Park swimming pool when the cousin went back to get towels; when the cousin returned, Deborah was gone. That same day a birthday card from Deborah arrived for her mother saying she was being good and helping her aunt. She was last seen wearing a white sleeveless shirt, homemade dark green polka-dot shorts with no pockets, and white low-top sneakers.

Deborah had brown hair and brown eyes, a pockmark on her face and a chipped tooth. Initial investigations produced few leads. Two other young girls, Janice Pockett and Lisa White, later disappeared from the same general area, and the three cases became known as the Vernon-Tolland Three. In 2014 a Tolland County Cold Case Squad was formed to re-examine these disappearances and apply modern techniques, and a substantial reward has been offered for information that could lead to an arrest and conviction.

What did anyone in Vernon remember about that day in July 1968?