Episode Summary
Kelly Disney disappeared without a trace in 1984, leaving behind a devastated family brimming with questions and grief. Ten years later, some of those questions are answered; but the most important one remains: who killed Kelly Disney?
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Episode Info
If you have any information about the murder of Kelly Disney, please call Lincoln County cold case investigators at 541-265-0284, or submit a tip online.
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Kelly Disney.
17-year-old Melissa Sanders.
19-year-old Sheila Swanson.
15-year-old Jennifer Esson.
16-year-old Kara Leas.
Bobby Fowler.
16-year-old Colleen MacMillan.
John Ackroyd.
A poster asking for information on Kelly Disney’s death.
Episode Source Material
- Statesman Journal (Salem, Or): Newport girl turns up missing, by Adelle Altizer via Newspapers.com.
- Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Or): Newport police suspect foul play via Newspapers.com.
- Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Or): Teenager might have run away via Newspapers.com.
- Statesman Journal (Salem, Or): Newport girl still missing after 2 months, by Adelle Altizer via Newspapers.com.
- Statesman Journal (Salem, Or): Body found at coast via Newspapers.com.
- Statesman Journal (Salem, Or): Body found reportedly not Newport Girl via Newspapers.com.
- Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Or): Case of missing Newport teen frustrates police department via Newspapers.com.
- Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Or): Skull identified via Newspapers.com.
- Statesman Journal (Salem, Or): Skull tied to 1984 disappearance, by Steve Beaty via Newspapers.com.
- Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Or): After ten years: ‘It’s final now’, by Jim Sams via Newspapers.com.
- Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Or): Search seeks clues to girl’s death, by Jim Sams via Newspapers.com.
- Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Or): Show seeks leads in the 1992 deaths of Linn County teens, by Carolyn Spencer via Newspapers.com.
- ABC News: Did A Serial Killer Murder Teen Girls in Oregon?
- KVAL.com: Oregon Coast murders: All girls, all unsolved via Internet Archive.
- KVAL.com: On Your Side: Investigation: Murder on the Coast, Looking for a Killer via YouTube.com.
- Oregon Live: Bobby Jack Fowler, suspect in death of Newport teen girls, may have killed 20 or more people, by Lori Tobias.
- YachatsNews: THE KELLY DISNEY COLD CASE: Four decades after the 17-year-old disappeared in Newport, her family still pushes for help and investigators still press for answers, by Quinton Smith.
- YachatsNews: Lincoln County investigators seeking Disney cold case closure will now be getting help from the state, by Quinton Smith.
- KLCC: 40 years after 17-year-old Kelly Disney’s disappearance, sister and investigators still seek answers and justice, by Quinton Smith.
- Dark Minds: The Coastal Killer (Season 2, Episode 3) via Discovery Plus.
- OregonLive: Ghosts of Highway 20: Melissa Sanders and Sheila Swanson, by Noelle Crombie.
