Waiting Down the Street: The Disappearance of Fawn & Rozlin Abell

On a summer afternoon in July 1985, two sisters walked out of their family's house in Bethany, Oklahoma. They said they were going to look for jobs. Their brother remembers one of them calling back, "Hurry up. They're waiting for us down the street." Rozlin Abell was 18. Fawn Abell was 15. Neither has been seen since. There was no newspaper story, and no search. For 25 years the case sat in a file, until a phone call about bones found at a wildlife refuge made a Bethany detective pull it. In this episode we follow that detective through what was written down, and what wasn't. Who was waiting down the street? Why did no one go looking? And why did the law of Oklahoma treat two sisters who walked out the same door on the same afternoon so differently? The case is still open. If you know anything about what happened to Rozlin and Fawn Abell, call the Bethany Police Department at 405-789-2323. Sources, newspaper pages and the timeline are at Section29.com.