A 9 yr old is abducted while walking to her grandparents; her body is found 2 months later In the autumn of 1975, a chill settled over Springfield, Missouri, that had little to do with the changing seasons. Nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose, a fourth-grade student at Portland Elementary School, vanished on the evening of Friday, October 17th. She was a young girl with a life full of promise, a daughter and a sister cherished by her family. That day, having spent the afternoon playing with her cousins at her grandparents' home, she began her familiar eight-block walk home around 6:30 p.m
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