Situated along Lake Michigan close to the Indiana coast, Indiana Dunes National Park's complex history and attractive features, including 50 miles (80.5
It all started out as a fun summer day out at the lake with some friends. On Saturday, July 2, 1966, 21-year-old Ann Miller picked up her buddies Patricia Blough (19) and Renee Bruhl (19) in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and the three headed out to Indiana Dunes State Park, on the shore of Lake Michigan, for a day of fun in the sun at the beach. They arrived at around 10 AM to a packed beach, the pleasant summer weather bringing people out in droves to go swimming, sunbathing, and boating. Among these lake visitors was a young couple by the names of Mike Yankalasa and Frances Cicero, who had a spot at the beach right near the young women. At around noon, they saw Miller, Blough and Bruhl talking to a tanned, dark-haired young man in his 20s who was aboard a 14 to 16-foot-long white boat with an outboard motor, and after laughing and chatting with the young man on board they got on, leaving all of their belongings on the beach. It would have been a totally normal sight at the time, a