Lured Into A Trap: The Heartbreaking Disappearance of Margaret Ellen Fox

In June 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox took the bus to meet a man who had responded to her add for babysitting services. She has never been heard from again

Depiction of Margaret Ellen Fox

Background

On the morning of June 24, 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox left her home and made her way to a bus stop near her family’s house in Burlington, New Jersey. Margaret was accompanied by her younger brother, Joe, who waved goodbye as she boarded the 8:40 a.m. bus to take the seven-mile trip to nearby Mount Holly.

Margaret was in good spirits that day, as she had just recently begun her summer vacation after finishing 8th grade at St. Paul School in Burlington.

That morning, Margaret was on her way to meet a man named John Marshall, who had responded to a classified ad that Margaret and her cousin had placed in a local newspaper advertising their babysitting services.

At about 9 a.m., Margaret arrived at her stop and exited the bus. Shortly after stepping off the bus, Margaret Ellen Fox vanished, never to be seen again.

In the days and weeks immediately following her disappearance, many strange and unsettling aspects of the case would come to ligh…