“She was a tiny little thing, but she was a spitfire,” Beverly told Dateline.

She told Dateline that the only time she remembered seeing Donna in a dress was for a school dance.

Beverly told Dateline she had never been to the store.

But when Beverly went back home, she said Donna spent most of her time hanging out with her boyfriend and a new crowd which Beverly referred to as the “wrong crowd.”.

that evening when Donna’s mother Emily called the store and told her daughter to come home.

Beverly told Dateline there were witnesses at the store who said they saw Donna leave just after the call and walk to a path that was a shortcut through the woods.

She said her Aunt Emily - Donna’s mother - had already started a frantic search for Donna Monday night and had reported her missing to the Newport Police.

Beverly said Donna’s younger brother told their mother that he had seen his sister enter the path that led through the woods that night and that an unidentified man followed her.

“I never saw her, of course, but my Aunt Emily did,” Beverly told Dateline.

In the weeks after Donna’s murder, police questioned more than a hundred people, including her mother, who Beverly said passed the polygraph test, but no arrests were made.

According to records provided to Dateline by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, detectives received information that led them to believe that Allen was involved in the killing of a teenage girl in Newport, North Carolina in 1975.

Public Information Director Anjanette Grube told Dateline that Donna’s case is an active investigation and anyone with information should call the SBI.

This week marked 46 years since Donna was murdered and her cousin Beverly told Dateline their family was forever changed by the tragedy.

Recently, they’ve requested a copy of Donna’s autopsy report from the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh, North Carolina?

Beverly, who told Dateline she believes more than one person was involved in her cousin’s murder, is certain there is DNA from her fingernails that will lead to answers.

She told Dateline she recalls a story Donna told her about drugs that were buried by some of the people in her crowd

Beverly told Dateline they have given all the information they know to police, but feel they have hit a dead end

Anyone with information that may help solve Donna’s case is asked to call the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation at (919) 662-4500