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Mark Stebbins

Case from Ferndale, MI dated Feb 15, 1976

Victim Details

Mark Stebbins

Male

White / Caucasian

Ferndale

MI

1976-02-15

12

Mark

Stebbins

07/14/2026

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In the winter of 1976, a shadow fell over the city of Ferndale, Michigan, with the disappearance of 12-year-old Mark Douglas Stebbins. A Caucasian male, Mark was last seen on the afternoon of February 15th, leaving the American Legion Hall where his mother worked. He had called her to say he was walking the short distance home to watch a movie. He never arrived. What followed was a desperate four-day search that ended in heartbreak and the beginning of a chilling mystery that would haunt the com ...
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