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The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

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