Janice Kathryn Pockett Top Two Rows and Bottom Left and Center: Janice, circa 1973; Bottom Right: Age-progression to age 47 (circa 2012) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: July 26, 1973 from Tolland, Connecticut Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: October 15, 1965 Age: 7 years old Height and Weight: 40, 65 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Janice has a gap between her front teeth. Clothing/Jewelry Description: Navy blue shorts with an imprinted American flag and star design, a blue and white-striped pullover shirt, white socks and blue sneakers. Details of Disappearance Janice was last seen leaving her familys home on Anthony Road in Tolland, Connecticut on July 26, 1973. She planned to ride her metallic green Murray bicycle, which had a bell and a banana seat, through the neighborhood to search for a butterfly shed caught and left on a rock a few days earlier. She was carrying an envelope to carry the butterfly in. It was the first time shed been allowed to go out by herself. She never arrived home and has never been seen again. Janices mother found her bike half an hour later, on Rhoades Road near a wooded area less than a mile from her residence. The butterfly and envelope were never found. Authorities believe something happened to Janice after she had picked up the butterfly and was on her way home. Janice was one of five people to disappear in the general area during a ten-year time period; another was Lisa White. All of the missing were female; they ranged in age from 7 to 20 years old. Two of them were found deceased years after their disappearances but the other three, including White, remain missing. It is not clear whether the cases are related. The late Charles Pierce, a pedophile who was suspected in many child disappearance cases in New England throughout the 1950s - 1970s, confessed to Janices murder. He claimed to have buried her in the Lawrence, Massachusetts area near an unidenitified boy who was another victim. The boy was thought to be Angelo Puglisi, a Massachusetts child who vanished three years after Janice in 1976. Neither of the supposed graves has been discovered. Another twist in the Janice case came in 2000, when the bone fragments of a child were discovered in the garage of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, a man charged with the 1996 abduction and presumed murder of Zachary Ramsay in Great Falls, Montana (the charges were later dismissed due to lack of evidence). Janices name surfaced in connection with Bar-Jonah when his criminal past came to light; he had served a prison sentence for the abduction and attempted murder of two boys in Massachusetts in 1977. Putting the possible scenario together, investigators learned that Bar-Jonah lived in Webster, Massachusetts in 1973 when Janice disappeared. Webster is only 20 miles away from Tolland, Connecticut, which is Janices hometown. He would have been only fourteen years old when Janice vanished, but Bar-Jonah had already allegedly strangled a playmate by that time. There have been additional accusations that Bar-Jonah practiced cannibalism in recent years. He was found guilty of two unrelated counts of child molestation in Montana in February 2002. Bar-Jonah, whose given name was David P. Brown, claimed he was innocent of all charges against him. Authorities also investigated the possibility that he was involved in the 1997 Wyoming disappearance of Amanda Gallion. Amanda is classified as a runaway, but her Social Security number has not been used since 1997 and there is suspicion that she met with foul play. A handwritten list of names entitled Lake Webster was discovered in Bar-Jonahs possession in December 2001. Some news reports stated that Andrew Amato was among the children featured in the list, but this is untrue. Andrew disappeared from Webster, Massachusetts in 1978. No one has been able to tie him to Bar-Jonah. DNA testing conducted in 2001 on a bone located in Bar-Jonahs Montana garage proved that it was not part of Zacharys Janices, or Amandas remains. Andrews DNA was not compared with the bone. Bar-Jonah was never charged in connection with any of the other disappearances. He died of a blood clot in a Montana prison in April 2008, at age 51. Charges have not been filed against any person regarding Janices disappearance. Her case remains unsolved. Left: Charles Pierce; Right: Nathaniel Bar-Jonah Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Connecticut State Police 860-685-8000 Source Information Connecticut State Police The Boston Globe The Great Falls Tribune APB News Court TV CrimeNews 2000 The Billings Gazette The Worcester Telegram and Gazette The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Connecticuts Unsolved Mysteries The Hartford Courant NamUs CNN Unsolved in the News Facebook Page for Janice Pockett Naugatuck Daily News Updated 12 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated October 20, 2014; clothing/jewelry description updated. Charley Project Home
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:13:09 +0000
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