| Image credited to Billings Gazzette. It's of Laura Jean Dugan's necklace |
14-year-old Lora Jean Dugan was last seen on April 7, 1972, when she ran away from home. She had an argument with her mother before stomping out of the house. Lora got on the bus but didn't go to school. Instead, she handed a friend her books and walked off towards I-94 in Huntley, Montana. She told them she planned on hitchhiking to Lame Deer, Montana or St. Paul, Minnesota. This was the last time anyone saw her alive.
On April 30, 1972, her body was found approximately 3 miles southwest of Medora, North Dakota. The area she was found in was 250 miles away and it's unknown what she did before her death. It took until May for her to be identified.
She was only wearing a jacket when she was found. There was evidence her hands were bound at one point. The stab to her stomach was not what killed her, but her killer strangled her to death. There is a possibility she was sexually assaulted. Her necklace that's pictured above was found hanging on a branch on a tree nearby. She had died between April 7 to April 21st.
It is unknown what Lora had done in the time before her death.
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