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Investigation Into Missing Teens Who Disappeared at a Concert 53 Years Ago Refuses to Go Cold

Investigators have renewed the oldest missing teens case in the U.S., giving the families hope.

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The oldest missing-teens case in the U.S. is still being investigated, according to July 2026 reports by Rolling Stone. 15-year-old Bonnie Bickwit and her 16-year-old boyfriend, Mitchel Weiser, disappeared on their way to Summer Jam at Watkins Glen on July 27, 1973.

According to the initial investigation, the teen couple was hitchhiking to the historic outdoor concert, which featured The Grateful Dead, The Band, and The Allman Brothers Band. They disappeared on either July 27 or 28, somewhere in upstate New York.

In 2023, Rolling Stone ran an investigative piece to mark the 50th anniversary of the disappearance. Bonnie and Mitchel’s families have never stopped looking for them, even when the initial investigation wrote them off as “romantic runaways”.

“A task force is exactly what we need to solve what happened to my brother Mitchel and his girlfriend Bonnie,” Susan Weiser Liebegott, Mitchel’s sister, said at the time. She’s been keeping the search going all these decades. As of June 2026, Bonnie and........

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