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Barbara Gaca

Case from Detroit, MI dated Mar 31, 1955

Victim Details

Barbara Gaca

October 23, 2022

Female

White / Caucasian

Detroit

MI

1955-03-31

1955-03-24

1955-03-24

1947-11-04

7

Barbara

Gaca

07/28/2026


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A 7 year old girl is found murdered a week after she was abducted
On a raw March Thursday in 1955, seven-year-old Barbara Gaca, a slender, brown-eyed girl, left her home on the east side of Detroit for the short walk to Assumption Grotto parish school. Dressed in her blue and white uniform, a blue snowsuit, and a print babushka, she never made it to her second-grade classroom. Her disappearance triggered a massive search, with thousands of volunteers, including 3,000 Boy Scouts, combing a 90-square-mile area. Garages, garbage cans, and even church confessional ...
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