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Nancy Santomero

Case from Pocahontas County, WV dated Jun 25, 1980

Victim Details

Nancy Santomero

Female

White / Caucasian

Pocahontas County

WV

1980-06-25

19

Nancy

Santomero

08/25/2026

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Nancy Santomero was a 19-year-old White/Caucasian woman from Huntington, New York, who was traveling with 26-year-old Vicki Durian of Wellman, Iowa, during the summer of 1980. The two young women were hitchhiking toward West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest, where they intended to attend the annual Rainbow Family gathering. They never reached the festival. At about 9 p.m. on June 25, 1980, a college student walking toward a lean-to where he was staying on Briery Knob, near Droop Mountain P ...
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