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She rarely spoke to anyone about her family, her poverty or her father's murder.
Encased in a frosted mauve casket, Barbara Ann Barnes keeps her secrets still.
The 13-year-old vanished the morning of Dec. 7, 1995, while walking to Harding Middle School in Steubenville, Ohio.
No one realized she was gone until after 3 p.m.
Once she vanished, however, the city of about 20,000 could talk of no one else. Mystery and fear laid siege to Steubenville until a surveyor found her decomposed, partially frozen remains Feb. 22, 1996.
They were buried in a dry, 3-foot-wide creek bed near Pittsburgh International Airport.
The coroner couldn't determine how she died.
No one has been charged with Barnes' murder
Police questioned Montgomery in Barbara's disappearance, and they suspected him of playing a role in the murder of Barbara's father, Gary Barnes, in 1989. Mike Dugan, a friend of Montgomery and Gary Barnes, is serving a life sentence for the slaying.
Montgomery was one of the last to see Gary Barnes, 37, when the two had "one or two beers" at an American Legion near both men's homes the night of his murder, Montgomery said.
"He said he had to go home and he left," Montgomery said. "Kathy (Barnes, Gary's wife) called me the next morning and said, 'They shot Gary.'"
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_379359.html
Encased in a frosted mauve casket, Barbara Ann Barnes keeps her secrets still.
The 13-year-old vanished the morning of Dec. 7, 1995, while walking to Harding Middle School in Steubenville, Ohio.
No one realized she was gone until after 3 p.m.
Once she vanished, however, the city of about 20,000 could talk of no one else. Mystery and fear laid siege to Steubenville until a surveyor found her decomposed, partially frozen remains Feb. 22, 1996.
They were buried in a dry, 3-foot-wide creek bed near Pittsburgh International Airport.
The coroner couldn't determine how she died.
No one has been charged with Barnes' murder
Police questioned Montgomery in Barbara's disappearance, and they suspected him of playing a role in the murder of Barbara's father, Gary Barnes, in 1989. Mike Dugan, a friend of Montgomery and Gary Barnes, is serving a life sentence for the slaying.
Montgomery was one of the last to see Gary Barnes, 37, when the two had "one or two beers" at an American Legion near both men's homes the night of his murder, Montgomery said.
"He said he had to go home and he left," Montgomery said. "Kathy (Barnes, Gary's wife) called me the next morning and said, 'They shot Gary.'"
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_379359.html
