Carmen Marie Hallock, age 22, was reported missing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after last contact on **December 18, 1969**, according to official records including the NamUs case file MP‑13067. A white female with brown hair and brown eyes, she stood approximately 5′5″ tall and weighed around 120 lbs at the time of disappearance.
On that evening in mid‑December 1969, Hallock spoke with her sister‑in‑law and said she had an appointment with a male teacher from the
local junior college, who purportedly did undercover work for the government and promised her a job involving international travel and a high salary. Hallock had purchased black patent‑leather pumps and planned to wear a black cocktail dress for the meeting—items which were never recovered.
When Christmas came and Hallock failed to make contact, her sister‑in‑law visited her apartment. She found Hallock’s car keys, driver’s license, and vehicle registration missing, the bathtub filled with water, her dog unfed, and the items she intended to wear for her appointment absent from the home. A few days later, Hallock’s car was discovered abandoned in a nearby parking lot, but there was no trace of her at the scene.
A missing person report was filed, but no developments occurred for over four years. In April 1973, two gold‑filled teeth and a gold shamrock pin belonging to Carmen Hallock were discovered in the possession of **Gerard John Schaefer Jr.**, a former Florida law enforcement officer and intern teacher in the Fort Lauderdale area in 1969. Authorities suspect Schaefer in a number of homicide‑style disappearances of young women during that period, though he was never charged in connection with Hallock’s disappearance. She remains officially listed as a missing person with no confirmed remains located.
Investigators have noted eerie parallels between the details of Hallock’s disappearance and a macabre fantasy story Schaefer authored that features a woman wearing black high heels and a black dress—items Hallock purchased on the eve of her disappearance. Although Schaefer’s writing was reportedly dated from 1967, authorities consider it possibly a morbid souvenir reflecting the crime.
Hallock’s case has been profiled on independent cold‑case sites like The Charley Project, The Doe Network and TrackMissing, which preserve and publicize the details in hopes of renewing investigations. While Florida authorities reopened aspects of investigations into her case and related disappearances in 1995, Schaefer’s death in prison in 1995 prevented further prosecution or closure. As of now, no verified trace of Hallock—including remains or definitive forensic evidence—has been found, leaving the case unsolved but still open in many databases.
Despite the passage of more than five decades, Carmen Marie Hallock’s disappearance remains unresolved. Her identification via dental records gleaned from Schaefer’s belongings is the closest investigators have come to connecting her fate. The phone call to her sister‑in‑law on the evening of December 18, 1969, and the unrecovered personal items—dress, shoes, keys—paint a final picture of a young woman lured by a false promise, whose life abruptly vanished in Fort Lauderdale.Last Seen: Dec 18, 1969
