[livius]

Very bizarre. I remember this case, although I was a child in New York City at the time. Perhaps we had fewer disappearances of children in those days, but for whatever reason, it was practically national news.

[SatinDoll]

In 1958 I used to wander all alone along Oxnard Beach. I mean for its whole length. At that time there was no marina.

This was a beach with a lot of beachy-type homes and some apartments but otherwise not much visited by people from in town, meaning Oxnard, or elsewhere.

No one ever bothered me. I was just 6-years old.

It is impossible for children to do that today.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I remember the reports of this crime. The little thing was just playing in her yard.

[MissTed]

If this guy is the killer, I hope he hasn't had a decent night's sleep in the past 53-years.

[MissTed]

If this guy is the killer, I hope he hasn't had a decent night's sleep in the past 53-years.

[SuziQ]

But three years ago, after he had changed his name to McCullough, an old girlfriend produced an unused train ticket of his from the very same day.

I wonder why she'd kept it for all those years. Did she suspect him, and if so, why didn't she bring the ticket forward before three years ago?

[SuziQ]

Cathy went to get her mittens, but when she returned, the man and the little girl known as "Pretty Maria" by her friends were gone.

I sure hope this little girl didn't suffer any guilt because she left her friend alone with the man. She certainly wouldn't have been able to help her; she would only have ended up a second victim.