Sixteen-year-old Beverly Sharpman disappeared from Philadelphia in September 1947 after taking several actions that suggested a planned departure. On September 11 she registered for her senior year at Overbrook High School and was last seen at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station at 24th and Chestnut Streets carrying a suitcase. That evening her parents received a telegram reading Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.

Before she left Beverly withdrew $173 from her savings, quit her clerking job saying she planned to move to Chicago, and told her mother she had something on her mind but didn’t speak about it. Police checked marriage records nationwide and found no marriage for her; relatives in Chicago reported no contact. Reported sightings over the years were never confirmed, and her parents and brother died without learning what happened.

Does anyone remember Beverly, her friends, or a lead about where she might have gone after that train station sighting?