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Pamela Sue Mosser

Case from Joplin, MO dated Jan 02, 1951

Victim Details

Pamela Sue Mosser

Female

White / Caucasian

Joplin

MO

1951-01-02

2

Pamela

Sue Mosser

07/15/2026

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On a cold January day in 1951, the life of two-year-old Pamela Sue Mosser was tragically cut short, a brutal end to a journey that had just begun. She was a young female, and along with her family, became a victim of a horrific crime that shook the community of Joplin, Missouri. The family, on what was supposed to be a vacation trip through the Southwest, encountered a hitchhiker who would irrevocably alter their fate.

The Mosser family—Carl, his wife Thelma, and their three children, R ...
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