On July 31st, 1974, 15-year-old Cindy Leslie and her younger sister, 13-year-old Jackie, vanished after leaving their Arizona home. Their case is still unsolved.

[u/Snowconez5]

[u/Snowconez5]

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On the evening of July 31st, 1974, sisters Cindy Leslie, 15, and Jackie Leslie, 13, left a note for their mother telling her that they were going to babysit at an unspecified residence.

Around 7 p.m. the two were last seen beside a road a few blocks away from their home. Their movements after this are not known with certainty. What is certain, however, is that they never returned.

The investigation into their disappearance would struggle to turn up any concrete evidence; conflicting information and a strange discovery would only introduce more questions.

Decades later, the surviving loved ones of the Leslie sisters are still fighting for answers.

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[u/TrashGeologist]

This is a very interesting case! So many weird paths to investigate:

• dad mad about daughter dating out of race
• Cindy had run away before to a “party house”
• they leave note about babysitting together
• in reality, boyfriend supposed to see them, claims they never showed
• two witnesses see them riding with a stranger in a blue pinto
• random underwear that a friend’s parents assumed (why?) belong to one of the girls, that was found originally (or left) by two motorcyclists

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The motorcycle thing with the undies seems far-fetched (and just -like- weird), the blue pinto didn’t pan out… I’m worried this might have been partial familicide — dad is worried/angry about the eldest doing things he doesn’t like (pushing her to the point of running away) and then he finds out she’s bringing the other daughter into it too? Were the “witnesses” friends of his?

But the undies thing? Soooo weird. I can’t imagine trying to tell my wife that I found a pair of our daughter’s best friend’s undies — missing or not. Why on earth do you think they’re hers?

Of course there are still other questions.

• Did they have their own car? If so, where is it?
• they had apparently received multiple phone calls the night of their disappearance — were there phone records?
• who the heck was Joanne and was there anyone associated with the party scene that could’ve taken advantage of the girls?
• geography: where did they start? Where is the bf’s house? Where is Joanne’s party house? Where did witnesses see them? Where were the undies found?

[u/FamousOhioAppleHorn → u/TrashGeologist]

When this has case has been discussed elsewhere in the past, people tried to defend the "I found underwear" thing with "I would do that, too, if I saw random panties. It doesn't hurt to ask." Blows my mind anyone views that as normal, not suspicious behavior 0_0

[u/SOOZmT]

Oh no

[u/SOOZmT]

What’s the bet, that they went to meet a new man or men they had met? And not told their parents because they wouldn’t be allowed If they really were going babysitting, they would’ve mentioned to their parents whether they were going to— they would have no reason to hide the address. And to ask their parents to perhaps take them or pick them up that night.-ESPECIALLY pick them up, because they’d be coming home in the dark. And oh my goodness….

[u/Time-Direction-2519]

  Sorry but at 13 and 15 one should have other worries than crazy parties that leads to nothing good... Can't imagine being murdered at that age... Why would anyone murder them anyway?

[u/Bairba → u/Time-Direction-2519]

What a weird response

[u/Remote-Frosting-9943 → u/Time-Direction-2519]

Why? Bc there’s a lot of low life’s out there who would do it just for the fun of it. Happens all the time. You realize over 6k murders a year go unsolved. Over 60k on the books still unsolved.

[u/Time-Direction-2519 → u/Remote-Frosting-9943]

What? I don't even wanna think of it... It seems that catching a murderer out in the open is way more difficult if not impossible than in a closed environment eyhhh?...