The 2 17 year old children of army officers at Fort Leonard Wood,MO were on a date on the night of Oct. 9,1976 when they vanished. The next day Alfred's car was found on an isolated side road in Fort Leonard Wood. His jacket was in the backseat and his hairbrush in the console. Neither teen were found. In Jan the following year an officer at the fort stopped and killed 3 out of 4 teen on a double date near where Alfred and Teresa vanished from. Their is no evidence linking the 2 cases except for geography. charleyproject.org/case/teresa-joanna-gossage
MP Officer Johnny Lee Thornton who commited the murders of the other teens in Jan 1977 was the one who reported the found car of Alfred. So, there is a connection. However, they have not been able to get a confession from Thornton and have not found any physical evidence linking the two.
ReplyDeleteJ.B. King, the Missouri Highway Patrol officer assigned to assist with the murder investigation recently published a book called Frozen Tears and was a guest on the podcast Darkness Radio where he talked about the probable connection between the two cases.
Teresa was one of my best friends in middle school when her family was stationed at Stewart Army Base in New Windsor, NY. After she moved, we wrote and talked on the phone, albeit not frequently because it was “long distance”. I received a note from her mother in August 1977 telling me that Teresa (who went by T.C. for Teresa Constance) had gone missing in October 1976. I still have this note. She, also, informed me that the parents and brother were moving to another base and gave me their new address. I have thought about her a lot over the years and will, occasionally, go online and look for any new information. I ordered Frozen Tears today.
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