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I think they're going on what my mom and dad said and that's it and okay well maybe she'll come home. Thank you very much, but I feel like my dad done something to her.

So it's just blows my mind at all the stuff that I have found out and it's been over 20 years that I've been trying to find answers.

They can call anonymous, they don't even have to give their name or anything. If that's what they're worried about, I just want closure, I don't need to know anything else.

I mean, if my dad did something to her, I mean he's passed away.

On March 4th, 1974, 13-year-old Brenda Sue Davidson left her school in Woodbridge, Virginia and never returned home.

She had been talking about running away with some friends, but on this particular afternoon, they weren't with her.

Brenda's mom was told that a woman from the Greyhound bus station had gone to the police and said that she sold a ticket to a young girl, but she couldn't remember where she was going.

Apparently, the woman from the bus station was so worried about leaving the girl alone at the station when she had to run an errand, that she decided to take her along with her to the bank, bringing her back before the bus arrived.

Whether this is true or whether this young girl was Brenda cannot be verified.

In the 44 years that have passed since that day, Brenda's sister Lisa has never given up hope that she would one day find out what happened to her sister.

Lisa was just seven when Brenda disappeared, and as she grew up, she began trying to piece together information.

While doing that, she realized that things didn't quite add up, and now questions her parents' entire story about Brenda's disappearance.

Amarissa and from Wondery, this is episode 139 of The Vanished, Brenda Sue Davidson's story.

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As I mentioned, Lisa was only 7 years old back in 1974 when Brenda disappeared. The only source Lisa ever had for information about Brenda's disappearance was her mom, and she never questioned it.

It wasn't until Lisa reached her 20s that she began asking questions, and she began pressing her mother for more information.

Her parents have both passed away, her father in 1985, and her mother in 2015. Since then, Lisa has come to the realization that maybe the family and the police were not told the whole truth.

She's now asking the questions she feels her parents never asked. If Brenda did run away, then what happened to her? She was just four days shy of her 14th birthday.

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