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On March 2, 1973, 19-year-old Susan McLaughlin, a student at UC Berkeley, set out to visit her family in El Dorado County, California. She took a Greyhound bus from Berkeley, making it to the bus depot in Sacramento, but was never seen alive again by her loved ones. McLaughlin had planned a weekend visit and was carrying a backpack, which was later found abandoned alongside Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe. On March 5, she was reported missing by both her mother and her boyfrie ...Read More
On March 2, 1973, 19-year-old Susan McLaughlin, a student at UC Berkeley, set out to visit her family in El Dorado County, California. She took a Greyhound bus from Berkeley, making it to the bus depot in Sacramento, but was never seen alive again by her loved ones. McLaughlin had planned a weekend visit and was carrying a backpack, which was later found abandoned alongside Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe. On March 5, she was reported missing by both her mother and her boyfrie ...Read More
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Susan McLaughlin
July 26, 2022
Female
Caucasian / White
El Dorado County
CA
1973-03-10
1973-03-02
19
Susan
McLaughlin
No
11/09/2025
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I recently came across Susan McLaughlin's case while reading about unsolved cases from the 1970s, an... ...Read More
05/12/2024
05/12/2024
