In May, 1976, a fourteen-year-old girl left her home and disappeared without a trace. There were no witnesses and little interest from the Police, who explained the occurrence as a “runaway”. In frustration at the lack of support from the authorities, her parents contacted Dorothy Allison, a renowned psychic.
Dorothy Allison provided a number of clues that proved central to the discovery of the girl and the killer being brought to justice. Initially, she asked the significance of the number 2562. A seemingly random series of digits, but the girl’s parents recognized them as February 5th, 1962, the birthdate of their daughter. This gave them some confidence that the psychic was genuine.
She then went on to describe a place with two sets of twin Church steeples and a pair of smoke stacks. She spoke of swamp and marshland and the girl’s father, exasperated at the Police inaction, began to explore neighboring towns until he came to a location that fitted the description.
He found an abandoned car as predicted by Dorothy Allison and, disturbingly, the large red letters “MAR” written on a rock and in keeping with the psychic’s vision. But with a lack of resources and fading hope, he failed to find his daughter.
However, sometime after he had given up the search, a group of teenagers came across an oil drum, with the number 222 on the side, dumped in a waterhole. They didn’t realize that these three pieces of information had been provided to the parents, the last being quite specific in that the girl was in water, but she had not drowned. The teenagers discovered the body of the fourteen-year-old in the oil drum.
Dorothy Allison also had to break the news to the parents that their daughter had been strangled by her boyfriend, whom she named. When this was passed on to the police they were able to find him and they learned that he had strangled the girl, placed her in the oil drum and dumped her in the waterhole.
