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Real Name: Janice K. Pockett

Nicknames: No known nicknames

Location: Tolland, Connecticut

Date: July 26, 1973

Bio

Occupation: Student

Date of Birth: October 15, 1965

Height: 4'0

Weight: 65 pounds

Marital Status: Unrevealed

Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blond hair, blue eyes.

Case

Details: Seven year old Janice Pockett vanished on July 26, 1973 after leaving her Tolland, Connecticut home on her bicycle to look for a butterfly. Her mother found her bike a half hour later on a road less than a mile from their home, and authorities presumed that she had been abducted after finding the butterfly. The police believe that Janice's disappearance may be connected to the disappearances of four other young girls in the local area, but this theory has not been confirmed. Her disappearance remains unsolved.

Suspects: Pedophile Charles Pierce confessed that he killed Janice and buried her next to an unidentified boy, but this theory was later dismissed.

Extra Notes: The original airdate of this case is unrevealed.

Results: Unresolved. In 2000, bone fragments were found in the garage of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, a man who was charged with the abduction and murder of a Montana boy who vanished in 1996 and some believed that the bone was Janice's because Bar-Jonah had lived only a few miles from where Janice was abducted in 1973. DNA testing showed that it was not Janice's bone, nor was it any other missing person's bone. Bar-Jonah was never charged with Janice's abduction or murder, and he died in 2008. Janice's case remains unsolved.

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