Hope Marie Gibson

A teen is discovered dead under a mattress in the woods
Hope Marie Gibson, an 18-year-old White woman, vanished from Columbia, South Carolina, on November 12, 1990, after what sounded like an ordinary plan for an ordinary day. She told her mother she was stepping out to buy a pack of cigarettes and then intended to go to the Triangle Lane Bowling Center, a small itinerary that should have ended with her walking back through the door or, at worst, calling home to explain a delay. Instead, she never arrived where she said she was going, and the hours t ...

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