CT Janice K. Pockett (7) - Tolland CT, 1973

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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: 4'0, 65 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Pockett has a gap between her front teeth.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Navy blue shorts with an imprinted design and a blue and white-striped jersey.

Details of Disappearance

Pockett was last seen leaving her family's home 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 butterflies. She has never been seen again. Pockett's bike was recovered later in the day on Rhoades Road near a wooded area close to her residence.


Pockett 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 1950's - 1970's, confessed to Pockett's 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 Pockett in 1976. Neither of the supposed graves has been discovered.


Another twist in the Pockett 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). Pockett's 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 Pockett disappeared. Webster is only 20 miles away from Tolland, Connecticut, which is Pockett's hometown. He would have been only fourteen years old when Pockett 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 is David P. Brown, claims he is innocent of all charges against him. Authorities also investigated the possibility that he was involved in the 1997 Wyoming disappearance of Amanda Gallion. Gallion is classified as a runaway, but her Social Security number has not been used since 1997.


A handwritten list of names entitled "Lake Webster" was discovered in Bar-Jonah's possession in December 2001. Some news reports stated that Andrew Amato was among the children featured in the list, but this is untrue. Amato 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-Jonah's Montana garage proved that it was not part of Ramsay's, Pockett's, or Gallion's remains. Amato's DNA was not compared with the bone. Bar-Jonah has never been charged in connection with any of the other disappearances.

Charges have not been filed against any person regarding Pockett's disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Connecticut State Police

860-685-8000
 
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