Taken From Her Driveway
Eight-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler
The Weckler family lived on Highway 12 of Fort Atkinson Wisconsin when on May 1st, 1947, one of their daughters never made it home from school.
Normally the three younger Weckler children rode their bikes to and from school but as April rolled into May it rained. Instead of making them bike through the mud their father, George, gave them a ride to school. As it happens, at the end of the day Georgia was released 30 minutes early. Instead of waiting and walking she got a ride with a neighbor, Mrs. Floerke and her little girl named Mary. She was seen by Mrs. Floerke getting a bunch of letters from the mailbox and skipping down the driveway toward home as they drove off. The driveway to her house was approximately half a mile. She never made it home. Between the point of Mrs. Floerke driving away and her home she met someone who had felonious intent for her.
Her mother, Eleanore, thought she was with her father until he came home at 6 PM and she wasn’t with him. When she made calls to…
