The sad demise of Peggy Coleman

  June 7, 1970 Margaret Coleman, aka Peggy Coleman, 19, of Canoga Park, California, was travelling around Montreal with her friend Margaret Jones, 20, of Encino (pictured at left)
 The best friends were trying to get a ride to a campground they'd heard about in l'Acadie, southwest of Montreal when a smallish dark guy offered to give them a lift.
  Soon Coleman was dead of a broken skull and all Jones was injured by the side of the road. In her only interview, Jones offered California police a rambling story about being picked up by a guy in a "dark blue Falcon" near the St. Hubert
traffic circle and feeling scared almost immediately after getting in.



    Police surmised that they were pushed from the car but Jones didn't have any clear memories and the parents refused to allow cops to grill her or make her take detector test.
   The parents of the girls fell out and there was apparently some insurance money that could be lost if they were proven to be hitchhiking.
   Coleman's parents nonetheless wrote to the Prime Minister and prodded other authorities to try to find answers to what they called their daughters "accidental death." We're not sure whether the culprit was ever nabbed but we'll report what we find out on this pixellated papyrus.