35 Years Ago, This 15-Year-Old Left Home, Holding A Pair Of Purple Sunglasses In One Hand, But She Never Returned: Several Years Later, Her Dad Got A Strange Letter In The Mail Claiming To Know What Happened To Her
The year was 1987, and Alicia Markovich was your typical American teenager. She was 15, she was a freshman in high school, and she was pretty popular with her peers.
She ran track, she had great grades, and she was the kind of girl that stood up and did something if she saw any of her schoolmates being treated badly.
Alicia was bold. She was hilarious. She was a smart cookie. She spent her free time pouring over detective novels written by Agatha Christie, and then sadly, Alicia wound up becoming a person that detectives in her own hometown paid great attention to.
The last day that anyone laid eyes on Alicia was April 26, 1987; a Sunday. Alicia’s mom and dad were no longer married, and she mainly lived at her mom’s house in Windber, Pennsylvania.
That Sunday, Alicia’s dad stopped by in the morning to take her over to where he lived in Blairsville so Alicia could spend time with him.
Facebook; pictured above is Alicia
Not long after Alicia arrived at her dad’s, he recalled that they began disagreeing about several topics, including the boyfriend that Alicia had, the friends she picked, her grades, and even the fact that her mom had wanted him to pay more money in child support.
According to Alicia’s dad, she walked right out of his house and down the street, holding a pair of purple sunglass in one hand that a friend had loaned to her.
Alicia never told him where she was going, yet her dad assumed it had to be 1 of 2 places; either to one of her friend’s homes or to the downtown area of Blairsville.
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Each of these destinations was about 2 miles from where Alicia’s dad’s house sat, so it was quite walkable for her to reach either place.
Alicia’s dad said that as she walked off down the street, he yelled that she better be back by 8 that evening.
Dressed in her tennis shoes, jeans, and white striped crop top, Alicia kept walking away. At around 1 in the morning, Alicia’s dad phoned her mom to say that Alicia hadn’t made it back home.
When Alicia was reported missing the very next day, police in the area thought she may have run away from home, though Alicia’s mom and friends insisted she never would have done that.
Several years after Alicia disappeared, her case was reclassified; missing, presumed murdered.
13 years after Alicia’s disappearance, her dad got a strange letter in the mail that had been typed out.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; pictured above is an age-progressed photo of what Alicia might look like at 31-years-old
The author of the letter claimed to know what happened to Alicia. The author of the letter stated that Alicia had been murdered, before pointing out the alleged location of her remains.
“What gave me the idea to contact you was when I saw by chance an old missing persons flyer posted on the side of a mailbox in Philadelphia about 3 weeks ago,” the letter said, according to a website dedicated to finding Alicia.
“The second time I saw it, it was like everything faded to grey. Nothing seemed real for a long time. I thought that it all had been forever buried. I had spent the last 13 years erasing and boarding up the name Alicia Markovich in my mind and by seeing that, it opened up the flood gates so to say to a limitless sea of remorse, guilt, anxiety, inner sadness, and depression.”
Police investigated the letter before they came to the conclusion that it was nothing more than a cruel prank.
Alicia’s case has long since grown cold, and authorities stopped getting tips on her years ago. If Alicia is still out there, somewhere, she would be 50-years-old this year.
If you have any information related to Alicia’s disappearance, you can contact the Pennsylvania State Police at 724.357.1978.
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