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Officials FearCont inued From Page 1After 9 p.m., when \na$\ si ores had closed and Belly Jean slid wasn’t koine, Mrs, Necessary called police.Sullivan County iteputiss and a tew Kingsport Life Saving Crew members searched without success until about 3 a.m. Friday in the adjoining woods, and the hunt was resinned about noon Friday when a check with neighbors, friends, and relatives did nol turn up the girt.About 1 p.m. Friday a neighbor, Lonnie Begley, found the girl's school bonks in a six-foot gully on a wooded slope about 100 yards from (he gravel road.Sheriff Wright sakl 1)k? books and papers were scattered as though I hey had been tossed, and an adult footprint was foundnear (he site,Begley's son, Wayne, said a path leads to the gully from the road, but that he doubled if Betty Jeati willingly look it: “She was afraid of the woods, •she wouldn’t even walk off the road. Someone always walked her lo the curve in the road ”The previous night, said Mrs, Necessary,a carload or “drunk boys in a 1961 Ford had appeared on the road and tried lo talk Belly Jean and Teresa into getting into their car.Sul*5van County Deputy Mike Gardner found ; a school paper, dated Wednesday and prcbub.y returned lo her Thursday, lying beside a narrow gravel road which leads ! through the woods to Betty Jean’s house.Her f u1 her, Walter Necessary, 448“* Kingsley Ave«, said she has never stayed j out ah night without calling him, and had no reason for running away. He thinks she lt;was “grabbed,Necessary said his daughter has been doing ! all Ufi cooking tor the family because they've 1 hod the flu, and he doesn’t think she would run away when they need her so badly, ire said she has no boy friends, and, lo I his knowledge has never been on a date.Deputies said Betly Jean was known as a good student with a reputation for staying out of trouble.When last seen she was wearing a brown flowered blouse, blue coat, and beJl-boItem ,pants.
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Kingsport News
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1970
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