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Missing

Disappearance of Melanie Melanson

Year
1989
Where
Massachusetts
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

Melanie Jo Melanson (born November 1, 1974) is a missing teenager from Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She vanished while at a party on October 27, 1989; at first, investigators believed she fled to Florida. However, subsequent investigations by both authorities and a private investigator have turned up no leads.

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