The Potomac River Teen Murders June 1956

The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in early June.. They were last seen getting into a blue Ford while waiting for a bus in Beltsville, Maryland. The brother of the teens, Mary Elizabeth Fellers, remembered seeing a young scar faced man who gave him a mean look. The high school students had gotten into his car. Fellers, 18, and Shelby Jean Venable, her 16-year-old best friend, were never seen alive again.