Eight-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler vanished on May 1, 1947, near her family’s farm outside Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. After being dropped at the entrance to the family’s half-mile driveway, she was last seen collecting mail and beginning the walk home; she had said she wanted to pick flowers for a May Day basket but never reached the house. An immediate, extensive search followed.

Witnesses reported a dark-colored 1936 Ford sedan driven by a blond man in his 20s in the area around the time she disappeared, and tire tracks suggested a vehicle had left the driveway quickly. Several witnesses later described seeing a girl matching Georgia’s description struggling with a man in a similar car in nearby Fort Atkinson. No ransom demands were ever received.

Convicted criminal Buford Sennett confessed to Georgia’s murder later in 1947, claiming she overdosed on sleeping pills, but he recanted and his confession could not be substantiated. Over the years investigators came to suspect abduction by a sexual predator; links to Ed Gein have been suggested but no conclusive evidence has emerged and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Georgia, her family, or saw that 1936 Ford in Fort Atkinson on May 1, 1947, please share what can help this cold case.