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AlO-Tht Post, Thursday, December 23, 1982 rMissing Girl's Gifts Gather Dust a I 1 Less than 600 firms in the U.S. have earned the rinht to display this symbol. We're one of them. PORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Leslie Wilson's presents are still in the attifc of the small white frame house. The new clothes are out of style, and shes too old for the toys.

Everything waj bought for a 14-year-old girl who disappeared eight years ago while Christmas shopping. If she's still alive. Leslie is now 22. Her little brother has grown up, married, and become a father. Her great-grandmother, who took care of her while her mother worked, is dead.

Her Pekingese grew old and sick and. had to be destroyed four years agot But the gifts are still in the attic, and her mother, Judy Wilson, now 40, still hopes. "Would you please assist in our search for our children?" Mrs. Wilson recently wrote to The Associated Press. "When I read in this morning's paper about President Reagan's Missing Children's Act, it gave me a new hope." The bill signed by Reagan in October permits parents to ask the FBI if the name of their missing child is in its computer files.

If local police decline to enter the name, the act permits parents to do so on their own. "Oh, I dream about her quite often. I know she's changed," Mrs. Wilson said, gazing at the last school picture of her daughter. "She'd be tall and headstrong, spoiled, you know." Leslie Renee Wilson set out with two friends on an afternoon of Christmas shopping at Seminary South shopping mall Dec.

23, 1974. She instructed her mother "in no uncertain terms" to pick her up at her great-grandmother's house at 4 p.m. "We were going to a party," Mrs. the United States, Mexico and Canada. They sent the pictures to 45 newspapers.

They hired a private investigator and followed up every tip from seers and psychics who claimed to know where the children went, or where their bodies could be found. "We went around knocking on people's doors, asking them to let us look in their basements. We went out to a field in West Texas, we dug in ditches all over the place, and looked up and down creek beds. I have no idea how much money we spent," Mrs. Wilson said.

Finally police turned the case over to the homicide detectives. Major Case Investigator George Hudson has helped look for the girls for seven years. He has a file almost 2 feet thick, full of leads that went nowhere. "Probably the only way we'll ever solve this thing is if somebody just comes forward and says what happened to them," Hudson said. "There's no evidence, no nothing." Last year bits of human skeletons were discovered in a swamp near the southeast Texas town of Alvin.

Hudson, a team of convicts from the state prison, and dozens of volunteers dug in the muck for two months, finally finding enough teeth in April 1981 to identify the bodies. They were two girls from Dickinson, Georgia Geer, 14, and Brooks Bracewell, 12. They also had vanished in 1974. "It was a relief that it wasn't Leslie, but you know, it was well, at least those other girls' families know what happened to them," Mrs. Wilson said.

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But the car was where the note said it would be. Inside were gifts the girls had bought, and a pair of blue jeans Leslie had gotten out of lay-away. The car was not dusted for fingerprints because officers did not think they were dealing with a crime. "I could have told you that night that they hadn't run away," Mrs. Wilson said.

"Leslie wanted to go to that party. And no 9-year-old is going to run off two days before Christmas. Everybody knows that. The families of the missing girls have sent 70,000 handbills with their daughters' photographs throughout Wilson said. "I know she intended to be there." Police never had many clues to the disappearance of Leslie and her friends Mary Rachel Trlica, 17, and Julie Mosely, 9.

Investigators first assumed the girls had run away. A few days later after they vanished, a note mailed to Tommy Trlica, Mary Rachel's husband of six months, seemed to support that theory. "I know I'm going to catch it, but we just had to get away," the penciled note said. "We're going to Houston. See you in about a week.

The car is in Sears upper lot." Mary Rachel's name was misspelled, and FBI handwriting experts steal ARROW. JOHN HENRY. PURITAN, MUN-SINGWEAR, WEMBLEY. IZ0D. JAYMAR.

HAGGAR, LAGUNft. JOCKEY. HUBBARD. HENRY GRETHEL i MORE. JBvHfiOei MENS SHOP Abandoned Four-Year-Old Girl Wants Her Daddy for Christmas THE "NOW" LOOK IN EYE WEAR LSouthdalthoppnjie) GARDEN SQUARE 622-2090 OAKBROOK SQUARE 626-6868 PALM BEACH GARDENS little girl's parents.

If there's a mother for this little girl out there, who wasn't with the father, we might have a chance. Otherwise, we've only got two chances. Either we'll get lucky, or the parents' conscience will begin to bother them. "We're doing everything we can to provide this little girl with some happiness this Christmas," Berg said. "The only thing we can't provide is mommy and daddy and Scooter." Police located a gas station attendant who remembers that the brown-haired girl and her father came in last Wednesday.

The attendant told police the father had radiator trouble with the car and complained about having financial trouble as well. Berg said Kim appeared to be well cared for, adding: "She's intelligent, well-fed, and was wearing decent clothes." "We took up a collection for Kim," Berg said, "and everyone in the police department and around city hall and the fire department kicked in." Donations have also come in from the community. "Everyone's been wonderful," Berg said, "but you can tell KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) Four-year-old Kim, left by her father at a fast-food restaurant here, has just one Christmas wish this year: she wants her daddy back and is hoping Santa will help. Kim was abandoned by her father at the restaurant just off Interstate-40, Police Capt.

Arlan Berg said yesterday. She hasn't been able to tell police much about herself. "She knows that her first name is Kim," Berg said, "but she doesn't remember her last name. When we ask her where she lives she mentions Las Vegas and Reno, but she's not really sure where her home is. "She calls her daddy 'Wally' and says she has a brother named Wally.

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