Their Mom Knew They Didn't Run Away!

Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook were 15-year-old twin sisters who disappeared from Augusta, Georgia, on March 18, 1990. Their mother believed from the beginning that the Millbrook twins had not simply run away—but the investigation into their disappearance would become almost as troubling as the mystery itself. After the girls failed to return home, their family says they were initially told to wait 24 hours before reporting them missing. Investigators would come to believe Dannette and Jeannette were runaways, despite their family insisting that explanation didn't make sense. On the afternoon they disappeared, the twins reportedly told their mother that they believed someone in a white vehicle had been following them. They later asked two different people to walk home with them before eventually stopping at a local Pump-N-Shop. That became the last confirmed credible sighting of the sisters. But the Millbrook family's search for answers was only beginning. The case was eventually closed, and years later the family received astonishing news: Dannette and Jeannette had supposedly been found. There was just one problem—no one had actually located the girls. Decades later, the investigation was reopened, bringing renewed attention to the disappearance and several possible leads. Investigators and journalists examined claims involving convicted murderer Ernest Vaughns, possible connections to Joseph Patrick Washington, skeletal remains discovered in South Carolina, and other theories surrounding what may have happened to the twins. None has provided a proven answer. More than three decades after they disappeared, Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook remain missing. Behind the case files, documentaries, podcasts and theories are two sisters whose family has spent decades searching for the truth about what happened to them. In this episode of Behind The Headlines from The Georgia Gazette, we examine the disappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, the handling of their missing-person case, the leads that followed, and the family that has refused to let them be forgotten. If you have information concerning the disappearance of Dannette or Jeannette Millbrook, contact the appropriate law-enforcement agency handling their case. Topics covered: Dannette Millbrook, Jeannette Millbrook, Millbrook twins, missing twins, Augusta Georgia missing persons, Georgia cold cases, unsolved disappearances, missing persons cases, true crime, Richmond County Georgia. #DannetteMillbrook #JeannetteMillbrook #MillbrookTwins #MissingPersons #GeorgiaTrueCrime #TrueCrime #ColdCase #AugustaGeorgia