Full Name: Deborah Rae Meyer

Alternative Name: Unknown

Case Status: Missing

Record ID#: 3652

*The names “Jane Doe”  and “John Doe” are English names used when the person’s true name is not known. If used above, the name refers to a person of unknown identity.

Date of Birth*: October 20, 1958
Birthplace:
Age at the time of Disappearance: 15
Age Group: Teenager
Gender at Birth: Female
Hair: Brunette
Eyes: Brown
Skin Complexion:
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Nationality: United States
Languages Spoken: English

*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

Physical Build:

Height:

Weight

Distinguishing Marks:

• Birthmark, Dental Work

Medical Condition: Unknown
Physical Abnormality: Unknown
Dental Condition: She had a full set of false teeth.
Scars & Other Marks: Birthmark on her upper left ear resembling a wart
Piercings: Unknown
Tattoos: Unknown

Other Descriptors: Unknown

Clothing

• Unknown

Possessions:

• Unknown

Date of the Disappearance*: August 4, 1974

Description:

On August 4, 1974, 14-year-old Deborah Rae Meyer disappeared while walking to a local movie theater from a relative’s home near Seventh and Spruce Streets. Deborah, who was visiting from Red Lodge, Montana, never arrived at her destination. She had a birthmark on her upper left ear that resembled a wart and a full set of false teeth. She had brown hair and brown eyes, similar in height and weight to Carlene and Christy.

Multiple Victims?: Yes

Rumored or Actual Sightings: Unknown

*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

Date the Body was Recovered: Unknown

Description: Unknown

Possible Signs Of . . . : Unknown

Time of Death: Unknown

Cause of Death: Unknown

Recovered Remains (if partial): Unknown

Suspected Homicide?: Unknown

Multiple Victims?: Unknown

DNA Tested (No Match): Unknown

*If the date says January 1, this is often just a placeholder for an unknown specific date. It usually means “sometime that year”.

Description: Unknown

License Plate: Unknown

Description: oyal ‘Roy’ Russell Long, a traveling carnival worker and part-time long-haul trucker would emerge as the key suspect in several unsolved disappearances and murders of young women across the south western United States in the 1970s-1980s.

Description: Caucasian, Male, 40s, Dark Hair & Beard, Mustache.​

Mr. Long had a long history of sexual assault accusations, including his daughter who testified that he had molested her for many years as a child. According to her, she sometimes traveled with him on long-haul trips:

“[H]e would see young girls, give her money to go play the pinball machine or buy a soda, and he would use stuffed animals to lure those girls to the truck. When she would come back, the girls would be gone” — Hearst Television.

Investigators have stated they believed Mr. Long was a repeat offender with potentially more than two dozen victims over the years (Hearst Television).  In addition to Sharon Baldeagle, who’s case is covered here, Mr. Long is also a possible suspect in the disappearance of:

• Four young girls from the Rawlins, Wyoming area in 1974:
  • Christy Gross
  • Carlene Brown
  • Jayleen Banker
  • Deborah Meyer
• Two young girls from the Oklahoma State Fair in 1981:
  • Christine Kinsey
  • Cinda Pallet
• Two young girls hitchhiking in Wyoming
  • S. (survived)
  • Sharon Baldeagle

Several young women disappeared together (Cinda and Christine, Christy and Carlene), suggesting that the assailant was willing to target two victims at once, similar to what happened in Sharon’s case.

Long also pled guilty to murdering Cinda Pallett and Charlotte Kinsey.  Unfortunately, the charges in the Pallett / Kinsey case were all dropped he was never formally tried in connection with the Rawlins disappearances.