Fort Worth Missing Trio: What Happened to the Three Girls?

On December 23rd, 1974, three young girls went Christmas shopping at Seminary South Shopping Center (located in Fort Worth, Texas). They disappeared that day, and have never been seen since. Their car was found in the parking lot, untouched. There had been dozens of searches for the three girls, who were dubbed the ‘Fort Worth missing trio’, and the authorities looked into thousands of leads.

Seventeen-year-old Mary Rachel Trlica (née Arnold) went by her middle name ‘Rachel’. She’d attended Southwest High School, and had married twenty-two-year-old Thomas ‘Tommy’ Trlica six months before the disappearance. Rachel became stepmother to his son, two-year-old Shawn. Rachel’s sister, Debra, had moved in with the newlyweds. Debra had previously dated Tommy, and at the time, she’d been having issues with her current boyfriend. Rachel drove a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 — and she’d driven the girls to the mall that day. Rachel weighed 108 pounds, and was 5’6”. She’d had long brown hair, and green eyes. Rachel had a small scar on her chin, a chipped upper front tooth, and she wore a wedding ring.

Fourteen-year-old Lisa Renee Wilson, went by her middle name, ‘Renee’. She’d been in the ninth grade. Renee was 5’2”, and weighed 110 pounds. She’d had light, wavy brown hair, and brown eyes. Renee had a scar on the inside of her thigh, and had been wearing a promise ring with a single clear stone. Renee had been wearing bluish-purple hip hugger pants, a white sweatshirt with ‘Sweet Honesty’ in green lettering…