Girl long missing to ‘speak’ via social media
PBSO tweets, Facebook postings to re-create Christy Luna’s world.
GREENACRES — All thi s weekend, Marjorie Christina Luna will take over social media for the Palm Beach Count y Sheriff ’s Office. She’ll do this despite having vanished more than three decades ago.
The 8-year-old Greenacres second-grader will speak vicariously through Sheriff ’s Office tweets and Facebook postings, re-creating in real time the events before and after 2:30 p.m. on May 27, 1984.
That’s the moment she walked, barefoot, in her turquoise swimsuit, two blocks from her home to the venerable Belk’s General Store on Swain Boulevard to buy food for her cats, Boo Boo and Skeeter.
“Follow her as she tells you her story of how she went missing, as it happened at exactly the time it happened, 33 years ago,” the sheriff ’s Facebook page says.
T h e Fa c e b o o k p o s t i n g , i n advance of this weekend’s event, became active at 8:49 a.m., May 16. By Friday afternoon, there were scores of comments, and the posting had several hundred shares and tens of thousands of views.
Some comments were from detectives who handled the case, or from their relatives. Some were from people who’d been neighbors or classmates of the girl they called Christy.
“Every time I have ever passed that little store she went to,” one post read, “I think of her. Every single time.”
In May 2013 her mother, Jennie Luna — now Jennie Johnson — stood with Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and others in front of an image of what Christy might look in her mid to late 30s.
“I know somebody knows something,” the mother — who is not