Curtis Eugene Chillingworth, a 58-year-old circuit judge, and his wife Marjorie, 57, vanished from their Manalapan, Florida, beachfront cottage after leaving a West Palm Beach dinner late on June 14, 1955. The next morning their home was found open; a shattered porch light, bloodstains on the walkway to the beach, and two spent spools of adhesive tape were observed. Cash and valuables remained, so robbery was ruled out.

No trace of the couple turned up despite air and sea searches, and they were declared legally dead in 1957. In 1959 Floyd Lucky Holzapfel admitted involvement, saying Joseph A. Peel Jr., a municipal judge, had hired him and another man, Bobby Lincoln, because Judge Chillingworth had uncovered Peel’s alleged payoffs and protection of illegal activities. Holzapfel testified the couple were taken by boat, bound with tape, weighted and thrown overboard alive; their bodies were never recovered.

What information or memories might still exist about the Chillingworths, their home, or that stretch of beachfront in 1955?