Cold Cases with Chloe Carter, Part 1: The Death of Rose Marie Levandoski
More than five decades after a Mississippi Gulf Coast teenager vanished from school, the murder of 13-year-old Rose Marie Levandoski remains one of the region’s most haunting unsolved cases.
In Part 1 of this month’s Cold Cases with Chloe Carter, we revisit a mystery that has left investigators, family members and an entire community searching for answers for 53 years.
Rose Marie Levandoski was just 13 years old when she walked out of her junior high school classroom and disappeared. For weeks, her family and community searched for answers. Then came the devastating discovery: her body was found in a river.
More than half a century later, no one has been charged in her death.
The case remains one of the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s longest-running unsolved murder investigations, raising questions that continue to echo through generations.
While decades have passed, interest in the case has never fully disappeared. New information and renewed attention are once again putting the spotlight on a tragedy that has haunted the Gulf Coast since the early 1970s.
For many, Rose Marie’s story is more than a cold case. It is a reminder of a young life cut short and a family that has spent decades without answers.
In this first installment, Chloe Carter examines the timeline of Rose Marie’s disappearance, the initial investigation and the key questions that remain unanswered today.
