Chilling ransom call released in 14-year-old girl's decades-old disappearance

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Chilling ransom call released in 14-year-old girl's decades-old disappearance
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Decades after a 14-year-old girl boarded a New Jersey bus to head to a babysitting job and vanished, the FBI is releasing a clip of a chilling ransom call in the case, hoping it may lead to answers.

Margaret Ellen Fox was last seen about 8:40 a.m. on June 24, 1974, getting on a bus in Burlington City to go to Mount Holly, according to the FBI.

"$10,000 might be a lot of bread, but your daughter's life is the buttered topping," the mysterious caller said. The prospective employer had called the 14-year-old from a phone booth at a Lumberton, New Jersey, supermarket and told her he'd pick her up at a corner in Mount Holly, the FBI said. Witnesses reported seeing a girl matching her description getting off a bus there that day, the FBI said."The disappearance of Margaret Fox has haunted this community for decades," Burlington City Police Chief John Fine said in a statement.

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