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FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. - It was the summer of 1989, in a quaint, small town about an hour and half south of St. Louis. Everyone seemed to know everyone; kids could roam the streets without care, and a simple bike ride down the street was a summer nostalgia.
Monday marks 35 years since this simplicity would become a distant memory as a nightmare took hold of the picket fence town of Fredericktown, Missouri.
Gina Dawn Brooks, a girl with green eyes and blonde hair, had come home with her family after her brother's baseball game on August 5, 1989. The 13-year-old was enjoying the last bit of summer before entering the eighth grade the following month at Fredericktown Middle School.
It was a little after 10 p.m. when they arrived home, and her mother, Cindy Box, hopped in the bath. While Box was relaxing in the tub, Brooks told her younger brother she was going to visit a friend but would be back before Box was out of the tub.
Brooks hopped on her brother's red 10-speed bicycle and began down the road to her friend's house.
While on her way, locals say they saw a dark-colored station wagon with Missouri license plates drive up ...
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