Our card this week is Catherine Schoberg, the aid of hearts from Wisconsin.

In June 1974, 17-year-old Kathy was enjoying all the festivities of prom night.

When a heated argument with her boyfriend at the post-prom dance sent her storming off

into the cool summer night, never to be seen or heard from again.

For nearly 50 years, law enforcement in Jefferson County, Wisconsin have been haunted by Kathy's

disappearance, as they've tried to find answers to the nagging questions still weighing

on the community today.

How does someone vanish into thin air?

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

Just after midnight on Friday, June 7, 1974, law enforcement in Jefferson County, Wisconsin,

got a call from a worried mother.

Her name was Ruth and she was calling to report her 17-year-old daughter, Kathy, missing.

Ruth said that no one had seen Kathy since her high school's post-prom party in rural

Jefferson County in the Wee Morning hours of June 6, which meant that she had been

missing for nearly 24 hours at this point.

Ruth said Kathy's prom date and boyfriend had come over to her house earlier in the day

looking for Kathy, and he told her that she had vanished from post-prom.

She stormed off into the dark at around 3am on the 6th after they got into a heated argument,

and no one had seen her since.

Ruth told law enforcement that she didn't think it was likely that her daughter had run

away because she had several things to look forward to in the near future, including

Ruth's own wedding that Kathy was to be the maid of honor in.

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