Deborah Ann Quimby was 13 when she went missing from Townsend, Massachusetts. She left home on May 3, 1977, saying she would ride her bicycle to her grandparents’ campsite on Vinton Pond Road, about four miles away, and promised to return later that day. A friend rode with her partway; Deborah continued alone along Turnpike Road and never arrived. Her brown 10-speed boys’ model bicycle was never recovered.

A note found later in her school locker said she was upset and wanted to talk to a friend, which suggested she might have planned a meeting that day. Extensive searches over the years, including draining Walker Pond in 2003 and 2004, produced no significant evidence. Deborah’s case is treated as an endangered missing person with the possibility of abduction, and her family continues to seek answers.

If anyone knew Deborah, saw her bicycle, or remembers her movements on May 3, 1977, please come forward with any information.