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A Little Girl, A Black Sedan, And A Wisconsin Mystery Spanning Seven Decades: Who Took Georgia Jean?
Eight-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler never made it home one May day in 1947.
It was 1947 in Wisconsin, and Georgia Jean Weckler was part of a large farming family living on the rural outskirts of Fort Atkinson. Her father was well-known in the local community as a landowner, with their many acres of arable ground making them relatively prosperous for the time.
However, when the third-grader disappeared one sunny afternoon, her father George and mother Eleanor would no doubt have traded it all just to get their daughter back. Sadly, Georgia was never seen again, sparking one of Wisconsin’s most enduring mysteries and inflicting a lifetime of heartache for her loved ones.
More than 70 years on, could modern investigation techniques ever crack this coldest of cases?
Skipping to the mailbox
On May 1st 1947, Georgia was released from her classes at Oakland Center school half an hour earlier than her brothers and sisters. On any other day she would have ridden her bicycle home, but she didn’t have it; it had been raining particularly hard that morning so their mother had given her children a ride in the family car to…
