What Happened to Barb Cotton 40 Years Ago?

She walked out into the dead of night and never came back.

Rivy Lyon
5 min readJan 10, 2022

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Barbara Louise Cotton. Source

15-year-old Barbara Louise Cotton disappeared from the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, North Dakota on the 11th of April 1981. She had spent the evening roller-skating with her friends and eating at a restaurant inside the hotel. When the meal was over, she started walking home and vanished into…

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Rivy Lyon

Investigative Journalist | Criminology, Psychology & Sociology B.A. | I’ve loved true crime since Forensic Files was Medical Detectives!