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It makes me really angry now, but I understand the legality of it all. But because she went 18,

they basically don't consider her missing for at least 24 hours, and she was an adult. So they really weren't super concerned.

One of the big points of this case is we didn't have too much. We have that van. Obviously in 1993, there is no surveillance footage in the area.

That's a big key component to what we do now. There's so much more surveillance available. You can try to look if not in the area of maybe go back to her resident,

but we don't have surveillance in the area where she left from where the vehicle is ultimately found or really anywhere in between there where we can try to track the vehicle's movements or possibly her movement.

In the spring of 1993, 18-year-old Bonnie Degas was adjusting to life being a new mom to her infant son, Jeremy.

Bonnie had been due to give birth to Jeremy in December of her senior year. So right before his birth, Bonnie completed a GED course.

A few months later, she took a job as a live-in nanny with a local family, which allowed her to care for Jeremy while working and enabled her to earn a little bit of money.

From the outside, things appeared to be going well for Bonnie. On the evening of April 28, 1993, Bonnie left home with Jeremy to go meet someone at a local grocery store in Brandon, Florida.

They never made it home, and Bonnie's minivan was later found abandoned in the parking lot of the grocery store, but their family is hoping that someone out there has a clue that may help solve this case.

I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 242 of the Vanished, Bonnie and Jeremy's story.

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Bonnie Lee Dagas grew up in Lithia, Florida. She was the oldest of five siblings. Bonnie was a gifted writer who loved horses and playing the tuba.

For this story, we spoke to Bonnie's mom, Linda, who told us more about Bonnie's childhood.

She was good. She was my first child. I didn't have any other children to compare her to. So she did everything just right for us.

Her first sister was born when she was just over two. There was five of them all together, three girls and two boys, basically every two years.

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