For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville,
West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five
children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed, their names and ages—Maurice,
14; Martha 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; Betty, 5—stenciled beneath, along
with speculation about what happened to them.
-Smithsonian
