The Fort Worth Missing Trio

What happened

Mary Rachel Trlica, 17, Lisa Renee Wilson, 14, and Julie Ann Moseley, 9, went Christmas shopping at the Seminary South Shopping Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23, 1974. Rachel drove the three in her car. They were expected home that afternoon, but they never returned.

That evening, Rachel’s car was found locked in the shopping-center parking lot. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s flyer for the three notes that wrapped presents were still inside, and Texas DPS records that the keys were gone and that the three have never made contact with their families. A letter postmarked the next day, addressed to Rachel’s husband, claimed the three had gone to Houston. Investigators and the families have long doubted the letter was genuine, and it has never been established who wrote it.

None of the three has ever been found, and no one has ever been charged in their disappearance. Texas DPS classifies each case as endangered, with foul play possible. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has age-progressed their photographs — Mary to 63, Lisa to 61 and Julie to 56. All three are still missing.