WY DEBORAH RAE MEYER: Missing from Rawlins, WY - 4 Aug 1974 - Age 14 (5 Viewers)

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Left: Meyer, circa 1974;

Deborah Rae Meyer
Missing since August 4, 1974 from Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming.
Classification: Non family Abduction

Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: October 20, 1958
Age at Time of Disappearance: 14 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'4"; 115 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes.
Marks, Scars: A small round growth on her left ear.
Dentals: Deborah has a full set of false teeth
Other: DNA available

Circumstances of Disappearance
Deborah left a relative's home in Rawlins, Wyoming on August 4, 1974 to see a movie and never returned. She has not been seen or heard from since.

There were four disappearances of young women within a seven-week period in July and August 1974 in and around the town of Rawlins. Carlene Brown was last seen with her friend Christy Gross, age 19, while visiting the Little Britches Rodeo in Rawlins, Wyoming on July 4, 1974.
The skeletal remains of Christy Gross were found on October 27, 1983, three miles south of Sinclair, Wyoming. She had been killed by two heavy blows to the skull.
Ten-year-old Jayleen Banker vanished while visiting the Carbon County Rodeo after being separated from a friend on August 23rd. Her body was later recovered in a field.
Deborah and Carlene have never been located.

The suspect in the 1981 Oklahoma abductions of Cinda Pallett and Charlotte Kinsey, and the 1984 abduction of Sharon Baldeagle was considered a possible suspect in the 1974 cases because he lived in the area and worked in fairs and carnivals like the ones being held at the time. But, no evidence has ever connected him to them.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Rawlins Police Department
307-324-6404
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Carbon County Sheriff's Department
307-324-2776

Case Number: 603810
NCMEC #: NCMC603810
NCIC Number: M0244489228
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
NamUs MP #6007
NAMPN

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DEBORAH RAE MEYER: Missing from Rawlins, WY since 4 Aug 1974 - Age 14

Deborah left a relative's home in Rawlins, Wyoming on August 4, 1974 to see a movie and never returned. She has not been seen or heard from since.

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More Than 50 Years Later, ‘Rawlins Rodeo Murders’ Of Young Girls Remain Unsolved

More than 50 years after four young girls vanished in what has become known as the “Rawlins Rodeo Murders," the case remains unsolved. "We lost our…

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More Than 50 Years Later, ‘Rawlins Rodeo Murders’ Of Young Girls Remain Unsolved​

It was the early 1970s and Rawlins was at the dawn of an energy boom. Oil and gas rigs studded the high-desert plains while Union Pacific trains hauled out coal around the clock.

The population swelled to nearly 11,500 — many of those people transitory workers drawn to southwest Wyoming by high-paying jobs.

New houses cropped up in the formerly empty fields around the county faster than downtown businesses could absorb the growth. It was a prosperous time.

Then girls started to vanish before anyone could figure out what was going on.

The first two disappeared on Fourth of July weekend in 1974.

They were 19-year-olds Carlene Brown and Christine “Christy” Gross, who had been visiting Rawlins from South Dakota.

The pair had gone to the Little Britches Rodeo at the Carbon County fairgrounds, and just vanished.

Neither was seen again.

Nine years later, Gross’ remains were discovered in a field 3 miles outside the neighboring town of Sinclair.

Brown has never been found.

The third was 15-year-old Deborah Meyer, who disappeared on her way to the movie theater downtown. Meyer had been visiting her aunt from Red Lodge, Montana. She was last seen leaving her aunt’s house near Seventh and Spruce streets downtown.

She told her family she was off to see a movie, but never made it to the theater.

Meyer also remains missing to this day.

Then the disappearance and death of 10-year-old Jaylene Banker at the Carbon County Fair in late August brought the community to a breaking point — the last in a string of losses that summer that the city has never fully recovered from.

The culprit behind the disappearances and murders has never been identified, despite decades of investigation by law enforcement in what is now colloquially known as the “Rawlins Rodeo Murders.”

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Map of area around Rawlins. The red dot is Sinclair.