Nine-year-old Candy Rogers disappeared while out selling mints
Every town has that one murder that changes everything. For a quaint neighborhood in Spokane, Washington, that case was the 1959 rape and murder of 9-year-old Candice “Candy” Rogers. After Candy’s disappearance, gone were the innocent and carefree days where parents let their children roam free in the neighborhood and left their doors unlocked.
The entire community anxiously waited for the police to catch Candy’s killer. Over sixty years later, the wait is finally over.
Background
Candy was a member of the Bluebird program. The Bluebirds were the youth counterpart of Camp Fire Girls, an organization similar to the Girl Scouts that focused on confidence-building and leadership through outdoor activities.
On Friday, March 6, 1959, Candy came home from school, played with her dog, and ate a snack. She then packed up boxes of Camp Fire Mints and set out to sell the chocolates to her neighbors.
Nightfall approached, and yet Candy had not returned home. Her family and neighbors frantically searched for her. Candy was nowhere to be found, but ominously, Camp Fire Mints boxes were found along the path near her home.
