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On the afternoon of Thursday, July 31, 1980, 14-year-old Evelyn Fisher left her parents New Holland home wearing a white T-shirt with yellow stripes, blue jeans and faded blue-and-white sneakers.
She walked across the family s yard toward a nearby vacant house, which she had been asked to clean.
She was never seen again.
Two days later, the hunt for the missing teenager was front page news. Fire company volunteers, police and other community members mobilized for the search.