14 year old Sarah Rae boehm (1994)

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Sarah Rae Boehm
This 14-year-old murder victim was located in 1994 in Ohio, though she was originally from Pennsylvania. She was last seen leaving her home, telling her brother that she was going to spend the night with her friend. She was positively identified as Sarah Rae Boehm in May of 2003.

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14 year old Sarah Boehm was a good student, cheerleader and a member of the school band, She called her mother at work at about 10:30 p.m. July 14, 1994, saying she planned to stay at a neighborhood friend's house. the next day her mother reported her missing. Later in 1994 Srarh was found murdered. As of May 5, 2007 Sarah's case is still unsolved. Sarah's father, Jack Boehm Jr., is a suspect in the case.

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One of Sarah Boehm's former teachers told police that she was a quiet and shy girl, "the type of kid that could sit in a chair and disappear," said Beaver County detective Kim Clements.
In July 1994, she did exactly that.

A grueling search for the missing 14-year-old ended when DNA testing identified remains found in Ohio in 1994 as those of Sarah Boehm.

Investigators pursued "hundreds upon hundreds" of leads, including sightings ranging from Rochester, Beaver County, where Sarah lived, to California

In one instance, Beaver County investigators learned of a girl going by the name of Sarah Boehm who bore a "remarkable resemblance" to the missing teen.
That lead, like so many others, proved false.

A good student, cheerleader and a member of the school band, Sarah called her mother, Phyllis, at work at about 10:30 p.m. July 14, 1994, saying she planned to stay at a neighborhood friend's house.

The next day, Sarah missed a doctor's appointment. When the friend told Phyllis Boehm that there had been no plans for Sarah to spend the night, the mother reported her missing.

Two days later, a note was found under the pillow on Sarah's bed. Clements said the note led Rochester police to believe the girl had run away. She had never run away before, as far as investigators know, Clements said.

Beaver County detectives began working on the case in 2000.

The girl's death has been ruled a homicide.

Clements would not say if Sarah's father, Jack Boehm Jr., is a suspect in the case.

He pleaded guilty in October 2000 to charges of indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor. Police said he confessed to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl between January 1999 and August 2000, when the girl informed her parents.

He was fined $500 and sentenced to three to 12 months in jail. Court papers indicate he did most of that time -- the minimum sentence -- under house arrest.

A Beaver County detective who interviewed Jack Boehm Jr. learned that his daughter had been missing for several years.

"That's why we launched an investigation," Clements said. "We weren't aware that we had a kid missing in Beaver County. Any child that is missing more than a few days, you should look at in a different way."

People who lived in the neighborhood Sarah disappeared from said that when her father was arrested for indecent assault, investigators came and dug up the basement of her home and brought in dogs to search for her body.

Sarah's mother, Phyllis Williams of Chippewa, her father and her brother, Mason Boehm, both of Rochester, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Rochester Area School District Superintendent Dean Galtisis said people at the school are wondering about the many sightings reported over the years -- which now have all proved false.

"The reaction seems to be, 'Well, how could she have been sighted so many times, but she's been dead for over eight years,'" he said.

Anthony Berosh, assistant district attorney for Beaver County, said the explanation for the false sightings is probably simple. "Hope springs eternal," he said.

Clements described the identification of Sarah's body as "bittersweet."

"I'm glad that we're getting her home," she said. "(But) you wanted to see that kid come home alive and well."

Beaver County detectives are meeting today in Ohio with investigators from Portage County and the FBI to assess and further plan the investigation into Sarah's death

[Joe]

I think it's clear Sarah's father undoubtedly abused her. The abduction story and the "older abusive man" were likely her way of trying to tell someone. One video I watched said Jack's alibi was being at a music fest in Ohio! That relative he was convicted of molesting wrote a note that said she didn't want to happen to her what happened to Jack's daughter. His polygraphs were inconclusive. He is dead now, so hopefully She can rest in peace.