17 h, mar 18, 1968 y - Elizabeth Ernstein

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14yo; went missing on March 18 while walking from Moore Junior High School to her home at 776 Crafton Ave in Mentone, ~1.5-2mi east of the school; left school at ~3:30pm

~4:30pm: seen walking east on Citrus Ave near the Crafton Dairy by classmates driving by on a bus

Shortly after 5:00pm: Elizabeth was last seen just west of Crafton Road on Citrus. A woman was seen talking to Elizabeth on Citrus Boulevard shortly after 5pm. Elizabeth reportedly had been crying. Investigators think the woman stopped to see what was wrong, and they wanted to speak with her to see what she knows. The woman was never identified, despite attempts to do so. The woman was in a tan or light blue 1962-65 Ford station wagon, with two kids in the car

Thurs., Mar. 28 at ~2:30am: the family's telephone rang; her mom picked it up, but the person on the other end did not speak at all. After trying to get an answer for five minutes, she hung up. She thinks the silent caller was her missing daughter

One investigator theorized (in Sept. 1969) that Elizabeth was killed then buried "just off Mentone Avenue between Crafton and Agate roads"; "On March 18, 1968, there was an open water pipe ditch along Mentone Boulevard. The ditch was being filled in. A killer could have thrown the body into the ditch [... etc etc]"

1969: skeletal remains found in a shallow grave near Wrightwood, a town 6,000ft up in the San Gabriel Mountains, ~35mi west of Mentone. Those remains were identified as belonging to Elizabeth in 2012. Investigators did not reveal how she died, but it is considered a murder case

MARCH 18
LUNAR PHASE: waning gibbous
ZODIAC SIGN: pisces
DAY OF WEEK: Monday
EVENTS: Mar. 17 = St Patrick's Day (1 day earlier); Mar. 20 = Spring Equinox (2 days later)

MARCH 28
LUNAR PHASE: new moon
ZODIAC SIGN: aries
DAY OF WEEK: Thursday
Partial Solar Eclipse 19:00; not visible from CA (or anywhere in US)
first location to see the partial eclipse begin: 12:43:37pm; maximum eclipse: 3:00:08pm; last location to see the partial eclipse end: 5:16:40pm (all in PST)

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