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Disappearance of Beverly Potts

Year
1951
Where
Ohio
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
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What the record says

Beverly Rose Potts (April 15, 1941 – disappeared August 24, 1951) was a ten-year-old American girl who disappeared while walking home from a neighborhood festival event held in a park less than a quarter of a mile from her home in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite intense publicity and exhaustive efforts to locate the girl, both at the time of her disappearance and in more recent decades, no trace of Potts or definitive…

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