Fourteen-year-old Bertha Gould was last seen in Morgan City, Louisiana, on the night of May 11, 1978. She and 15-year-old Judy Ann Adams left the Central Catholic High School fair on the municipal auditorium grounds and, at about 11:30 p.m., a witness saw both girls get into a white car driven by an unknown man. That was the last confirmed sighting of either girl.

Two weeks later Judy Adams’s body was found in a septic tank in Bayou Vista alongside 19-year-old Bridget Cantrell Sons; both had been bound and strangled. A third victim, 17-year-old Gordon M. Canella Jr., was later found in a cane field. Authorities identified a prime suspect as Robert Carl Hohenberger, a former California sheriff’s deputy living in Louisiana under an alias; he died by suicide as police closed in in June 1978. Bertha Gould has never been located, and her fate remains unknown.

Does anyone have information about Bertha’s whereabouts that could still help bring clarity to this long-unsolved disappearance?