Katharina Buczek
So, Rusty and his mother ran back into the mall and searched every single store before the shopping center closed. Unfortunately, though, Renee, Rachel, and Julie were nowhere to be found.
The Fort Worth Police Department was subsequently notified of the girl’s disappearance that night. By the next morning, though, Rachel’s husband– Tommy – received a freaky handwritten letter with a message to the girl’s three families.
NAMUS; pictured above is Julie
“I know I’m going to catch it, but we just had to get away. We’re going to Houston. See you in about a week. The car is in Sear’s upper lot,” the note read.
And this note ultimately raised many red flags– only intensifying the families’ worries. First of all, the fact that the girls would just up and leave town was beyond uncharacteristic and just unbelievable.
On top of that, though, the message was signed by Rachel. But Rachel’s own name had been misspelled– with what appeared to be an extra “e.” So, it was extremely difficult to believe that the seventeen-year-old girl would have spelled her own name wrong.
“I don’t understand the letter at all. The letter seems to me like it almost points to someone who knew them. People say it’s to throw us off the track. Throw us off of what track? There has never been any track. I don’t know if we will ever know what happened,” Terry revealed.
The three girls were then designated as runaways for the first year of their disappearance by the Fort Worth Police Department. After a private investigator hired by the families voiced their upset over the status, though, the girls’ case was reassigned to the Major Case Unit.
As if the stress of not knowing where the kids were was not enough, though, Renee’s father also revealed how prank calls to their homes became the norm.
“It’s been really bad since they disappeared. We had to get an extra phone in the house people would be calling and saying it was the girls when it wasn’t them,” her father, Richard, said.
