Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook's last known location

This is the location where Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook were last seen.

It is situated at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 12th Street in Augusta, Georgia.

At the time, it was called Pump-N-Shop. These days, it is known as Augusta Mart.

An employee at this gas station last saw the fraternal twins on March 18th, 1990. The employee, a woman named Gloria, knew the Millbrook twins, as they were frequent customers. She said that the 15-year-olds purchased some chips and soda and then left at approximately 4.30 p.m.

Gloria didn't notice anything about their behavior that indicated they were anxious or scared. She also could not recall which direction they walked after they left the store.

Earlier that day, the two girls had walked to a local church on Laney Walker Boulevard. After returning home from the church, they reportedly told their mother, Louise Sturgis, that they had been followed by a man in a van.

Cooney Circle

At the time of their disappearance, the family had only recently moved to a new apartment on Cooney Circle, which is situated on Olive Road in an area known as Jennings Homes.

This move somewhat complicated matters for Dannette and Jeannette, as their new neighborhood was three miles outside of their school district.

Although the city bus would take them most of the way, their mother couldn't afford to pay for the fare.

Consequently, they called their godfather, Ted, and asked him for a loan of money. Ted agreed, and the two girls made the lengthy walk to his place.

Last known movements

When they finally reached Ted's house, he gave them $20, which was enough to buy a 7-day pass on the city bus. It also left them with extra money to buy candy.

After spending time with Ted, the twins visited their cousin's house and asked her to walk back to their new apartment. However, she wasn't allowed to go because nightfall was just around the corner.

Before heading home, the girls also stopped by their older sister's place on Picquet Avenue. Notably, they also asked her to walk back to Cooney Circle, even though they were aware that she had recently given birth.

Understandably, she had to tell them no.

They reached Pump-N-Shop at around 4.30 p.m. and stopped to buy some candy.

The walk from the gas station to Cooney Circle is approximately 1.9 miles.

Because the girls were new to the neighborhood, they may not have known the quickest route.

Sunset on March 18th, 1990, was not until 6:40 p.m. This means they had roughly two hours to spare after leaving the gas station, raising the possibility that they stopped somewhere else on the way home.

Investigation

The investigation into their disappearance was lacking, and the case received very little media attention.

Although family members quickly contacted the authorities, they were told they needed to wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report.

When the police did look into the disappearance, they surmised that the twins had probably run away. In 1991, the case was inexplicably closed, and they were removed from the national missing persons database.

Investigators at the Richmond County Sheriff's Department reopened the case in 2013 after determining it had been erroneously closed. Although DNA samples from relatives have been added to the national database, there have been no matches with any Jane Does.

Theories

Although the girls allegedly mentioned a man in a white van, it seems unlikely that a stranger abducted two 15-year-old girls off the street in broad daylight. The most likely scenario is that they walked to a private residence or were picked up by someone they knew.

Suspicion later fell on the twins' father, John Millbrook, who had a crack cocaine addiction. He reportedly showed no interest in finding his daughters.

During the early 2000s, Millbrook was imprisoned for helping a criminal associate named Ernest Vaughns dispose of a body. In 2017, Vaughns claimed that Millbrook knew about his daughters' deaths, stating they were accidentally killed at a party.

Investigators, however, do not believe that Vaughns' account is credible.

Millbrook, who suffered from dementia, passed away in January 2021.

Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook remain missing to this day.