17-year-old Elizabeth Lea Franks was married to a 22-year-old man. The two got married in 1964 after she became pregnant with their daughter. On April 14, 1965, Her husband claimed to have had an argument with her after he caught her with another man.
He said that she packed up her stuff and left their Toledo, Ohio home that day.
In 2004 investigators reopened the case. She hadn't contacted anyone since her disappearance and there's been no activity on her Social Security number. There were no signs of troubles that would cause her to leave her whole life behind.
Her mother last saw her before Easter of that year (April 18). Her mother had gone to their home to drop off Easter Baskets. The landlady let her in the apartment and they saw it was in disarray with drapes and torn clothes were thrown about. The baby's bedding was gone.
The landlady told Elizabeth's mom she heard a lot of commotion coming from the apartment the night before. This was when Elizabeth reported her daughter missing and hired a P.I. to search for her daughter.
Elizabeth's husband is considered a "person of interest" in this case. He was reinterviewed in 2004.
Their daughter lived with her father's relatives, her father for a few years, and then a children's home after her mother disappeared. She didn't get to know her mother's family until she was an adult.
Elizabeth is a white female and was 17 at the time. She went by the nicknames Beth and Bethie and her maiden name is McCarthy and may use the last name, Wilson. She was 5'2" and 95 lbs. She has red hair and blue eyes. She has a mole on the back of her left thigh and a chicken pox scar on her nose.
SOURCES:
Charley Project
NamUs
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