March 12: Elizabeth Smart rescued

Plus: Washington coed disappears, murder in an athleisure store, and more.

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1974: Donna Gail Manson vanishes from college campus

Donna Gail Manson had been a shy kid, but as a 19-year-old student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, she had earned a reputation among her friends as a bit of a free spirit.