On August 27, 1973, 16-year-old Mitchell Weiser and 18-year-old Bonnie Bickwit attended a Grateful Dead concert at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. Both were from Long Island, New York, and had traveled to the show together.
After the concert ended, the pair began hitchhiking back toward New York. Witnesses reported seeing them leave the venue on foot. That was the last confirmed sighting of either of them.
They never made it home.
No phone calls.
No confirmed sightings.
No physical evidence recovered.
Mitchell’s parents reported him missing soon after. Bonnie’s disappearance, however, was complicated by the fact that she was legally an adult and had left home voluntarily before. This delayed the urgency of the investigation.
Over the years, theories have ranged from an accident during hitchhiking, to foul play by a passing driver, to the possibility that the two were victims of a serial offender operating along the East Coast in the early 1970s. Despite decades of investigation, neither Mitchell nor Bonnie has ever been located, and no suspects have been publicly named.
More than 50 years later, the case remains completely unresolved.
Questions:
- Did something happen during the hitchhiking journey itself?
- Were they targeted together, or was this a crime of opportunity?
- Why has no trace of either teen ever been found after all these years?
This was almost PEAK "golden age of serial killers" and the fact that they were hitch-hiking made them all too easy a target for an offender on the hunt on America's highways.
Their remains could literally be anywhere and I guess we could get lucky and maybe a development or some such turns them up and then genetic geneologists do their work.
that's got very low chances of happening you see.
So then what was your desired outcome of this post?
I REALLY would like to think they've been living happily together in Alaska or somewhere ever since.
yeah but we all know deep down something bad must've happened.
I read about this case, there are a few articles out there including one by rolling stone. Everything I've read says it's unknown if they even made it to the concert, they were last seen hitching on the way. Aside from the serial killer theories, and one where someone claimed he saw them drown in a river, there has been some speculation about a love triangle situation Bonnie was working at a summer camp, I believe that it's been suggested a male that worked there as well might have had some involvement unwanted or otherwise towards Bonnie, I can't remember the details of that but I think it's covered here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/s/9ipfJaZvNW I think they were murdered before they got to the concert, whether the before mentioned summer camp scenario is correct I think someone from the camp is more likely to be the killer, they set out for the concert from there.
That thread said they were going to Watkins Glen, NY for the Summer Jam concert and disappeared. This thread says they were going to Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ for a concert and disappeared.
Oh yeah I didn't even notice that! Well the concert definitely was at Watkins Glen - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen - Wikipedia https://share.google/M3znkTp4SrPtkp9uV It was at the Grand Prix race track, now Watkins Glen international. Crazy that there were 600,000 people there.
I understand Bonnie was 15, not 18.
Seems this post has a lot of misinformation
oh boy...
I’d never heard of this case. Was it ever featured on Dateline or something?
no, i don't think so. I came across it while just casually mining through that website of missing persons.
This posting makes no sense. Their disappearance was involved with the Summer Jam concert at Watkins Glen, NY, not Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ.
OP your post has so many false facts. You should delete this and whatever source you used for this write up, you shouldnt use that site anymore.
Mitch and Bonnie deserve so much more than this.
Wasn't Ted Bundy active during that time?
Bro… They’re STILL on tour, chill already. /s
Way too many stories like this.