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Missing

Barbara Jean Monaco

Year
1978
Where
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

Monaco and her older sister lived in Derby, Connecticut in 1978. They took a vacation trip to Virginia Beach, Virginia on August 20, the day after Monaco's eighteenth birthday, and registered at the Aloha Motel on 15th Street. Monaco and her sister went to the Country Comfort bar on Pacific Avenue on the night of August 22. A man there kept urging Monaco to go out with him, and told her he had a yacht, but she was…

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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