The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Family appeal over sister missing for 42 years
Sisters of a teenager who went missing 42 years ago have made an emotional appeal for help finding her.
Mary Duncan, 17, left her home in Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, in the early evening of March 19 1976.
She told her family she was going to meet a friend but never returned and has not been seen since.
Her sisters – Debbie Renwick, Mandy Duncan and Marion McFarlane – appealed for information at a press conference in Dumbarton.
Ms Renwick, 56, said: “Mary was a quiet, happy girl who worked as a machinist. In March 1976 she simply went out to visit her friend in Tullichewan and never came home.
“This was out of character for her and has always been a cause of concern for us.
“Although over 40 years have passed since we last saw her, we still miss her and we dearly long to locate her and bring her home. We would ask anyone who knew Mary prior to her disappearance to please share their recollections of her with the police.”
She no longer believes her sister is alive and said she hoped in the time that has passed the conscience of anyone with information will now compel them to come forward. She added: “We just want to bring her home.”
Ms McFarlane, 59, said the smallest piece of information could be the missing piece of the jigsaw which could reveal what happened to their sister.