joellegirl: Exactly, Beverly was allowed to stay to the end of the show because her parents thought Patsy would also be there. They were supposed to walk home together. But Patsy was told to be home by dark and the Showwagon continued AFTER dark. So Beverly and Patsy had an arguement and Patsy walked home alone so she would arrive home by dark, leaving Beverly there.
There are so many possibilities as to who took Beverly:
1. Acquaintance/Sexual Predator she should not have trusted
2. Older boy she liked and should not have trusted
3. Unknown Couple who kidnapped her for unknown purposes
4. Unknown Sexual predator
What are the other possibilities?
Was re-reading this book the other night and a couple possibilities crossed my mind, although not likely:
-Could someone have accidentally hit her with their car, panicked and hid the body?
-Could some neighborhood kids (perhaps a little older than her) been goofing off with her, things got a little too rough, she fell and hit her head, they panicked and hid the body?
-Could she have witnessed some sort of other illegal activity and somebody silenced her?