William Ebenezer Jones III
The oldest missing child case in the state of New Jersey for children under 5 years of age.
On December 17th, 1962, with her husband at work, Evelyn Jones allowed 3-year-old William also known as Billy (3), and his sister Jill (2) outside to play. She bundled them up against the cold and sent them outside. She felt comfortable going so because she could watch them from the front window.
All was well until Evelyn left to check on her youngest child, Bart (1) in another room. When she got back, Billy was gone, and Jill was standing at the front door holding a plastic poinsettia in her little hands.
That is what some accounts say.
Other accounts say a neighbor saw Billy wandering around in front of their house at 11:45 a.m. and told him he should go home. At 1 p.m. Evelyn heard a knock on the door and when she opened it Jill was standing there with a plastic poinsettia in her hand when her mother asked where Billy was, she told her mother the bogeyman had taken him.
Evelyn called her husband and started searching for him.
During her search, she ran up and down the road franticly. A man in a green car stopped and asked her if she was Mrs. Jones but Evelyn didn’t respond to him, so he drove away.
