JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) _ Authorities are searching three ponds in northwest Joplin for the remains of a girl who disappeared in 1992 and is believed to have been murdered.Joplin police and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources were using sonar equipment to search the ponds for evidence of 14-year-old Tracy Pickett. She disappeared after going to Webb City on
Aug. 11, 1992, to stay overnight with a girlfriend.
The Joplin Globe reports a deceased suspect in the girl’s disappearance formerly lived near the ponds.
Police were told the girl accepted a ride home from her friend’s house from the suspect, ex-convict Lowell Billy. He claimed he dropped her off in downtown Joplin but she was never seen again.
No one has ever been charged in the girl’s disappearance.
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