The Bizarre Disappearances of Annette Sagers & Korrina Malinoski
The mother & daughter went missing within months of each other, and police believe they were murdered by someone close to them.
Annette Sagers had her dog with her as she waited for her school bus on the morning of October 4, 1988. Annette lived in a cabin on the Mount Holly Plantation in Mount Holly, South Carolina, where her stepfather worked as a caretaker. The property was located on Highway 52; the school bus would pick Annette up on Highway 52, right at the end of the plantation’s long driveway. She was the only student who used that bus stop, but her dog would usually accompany her on the half-mile walk to the highway and would remain with her until the bus arrived.
Several passing motorists saw Annette at the bus stop that morning, sitting inside the little wooden hut that had been built to shelter her from inclement weather; she was perched on top of her school books with her dog at her side. She was seen by several witnesses around 7:00 am, but when her bus arrived at 7:20 am, Annette was nowhere to be found. The bus driver didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary at the bus stop and assumed that the 12-year-old was simply staying home from school that day.