The Disappearance of Juanita Jean Nelson

Juanita Jean Nelson was blonde, beautiful and popular. But unlike Natalee Holloway, her disappearance went widely unnoticed even in her own hometown of Boulder Creek, California. Boulder Creek is not the kind of place where girls go missing as a result of criminal activity, even ones who, like Juanita, had a history of running away from home.
Indeed, when her mother reported Juanita missing, shortly after she was last seen, the police were slow to act. They assumed the troubled girl had just once more gone on the run. It would be eighteen months before the Santa Cruz Police Department began to take her disappearance seriously. What happened to Juanita Jean Nelson?