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On a cold December day in 1977, a young man full of life and with a future ahead of him vanished after heading out for a night of music. Nineteen-year-old David Paul Talsma, a United States Marine, told his mother he was going to a rock concert in Hammond, Indiana, on December 9th, but he never returned. His family was left to wonder and hope, unaware of the sinister fate that had befallen him.

The search for answers would stretch on for nearly two years, a period of agonizing uncertainty ...Read More
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Victim Details

David Talsma

Male

White / Caucasian

Hammond

IN

1977-12-09

19

David

Talsma

12/16/2025