Doloris May Siddall, 29, disappeared from Long Beach, California, on August 23, 1961. Pregnant at the time and the mother of three young children, she left them with a babysitter before she went to meet a man she believed could end the pregnancy. She lived on the 700 block of Redondo Avenue and worked as a barmaid.

Doloris reportedly told friends she was in trouble and borrowed $100 to pay Hugh MacLeod Pheaster, who was known for performing illegal abortions. Pheaster later said she died accidentally during the procedure and that he disposed of her body in a remote area near Lake Arrowhead or Big Bear Lake in San Bernardino County. A lie detector test reportedly supported his account, but searches of the area did not recover her remains.

Pheaster was acquitted of murder in this case; he was later convicted on other illegal-abortion charges and, much later, was convicted in a 1974 kidnapping for ransom. Doloris’s body has never been found and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the Long Beach area in 1961 or near Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake know anything about Doloris’s movements that August?