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PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later
PA Girl's Disappearance Haunts Investigators Nearly 40 Years Later Jolene Michelle Lakey was just steps from her Scranton home when she vanished nearly 40 years ago.  The 11-year-old was walking back with a friend after visiting her sick mother at Mercy Hospital, now the Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital, on August 26, 1986, according to state police investigators.  They parted ways after reaching her friend's house on Myrtle Street, and Lakey continued onto North Washington Avenue toward her home on the 1300 block.  She never made it, say the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers.  Witnesses reported that a child matching Lakey's…

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