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Evelyn Hartley was a studious and steadfast 15 year old girl, just living a normal life with her parents and siblings in La Crosse Wisconsin. One night she took a babysitting job for her father's co- worker (a college professor) and never returned. The disappearance is mysterious and the later confession even more mysterious.

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 Music By: Michael Drzewiecki

 Cover Art By: Charnell

• Where's Evelyn? : the 1953 babysitter's kidnapping that shook the nation Author: Susan T. Hessel Publisher: Lessons from Life, La Crosse, WI, ©2005
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  "Evelyn Hartley – News archives 26 Oct 1953 to 27 Feb 1997". La Crosse Public Library.
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  "Police Hold man in Abduction Case". Reading Eagle. Reading, PA. UP. January 21, 1954.