You’ve heard criminologist Shawna Cleary giving her theories about the abductor (and yes, she thinks the same person took both girls).

And you’ve also seen flickering, flitting images of a young girl in a pink bathing suit frolicking on the beach with her family. That girl is Brenda White.

The images were recorded about two months before Brenda disappeared and about five months before her body was found in a shallow grave near Harrah. Filming occurred in June 1967 during a family vacation to Pensacola, Florida.

The film clips were provided to The Oklahoman by Brenda’s parents.

There’s something about those images that bring home the loss this family suffered more powerfully than any police reports or interviews or words in a news article.

One moment, Brenda is there, an excited young girl, smiling, laughing and playing in the sand with her brother on the ocean shore. The next, she jumps out of the frame and vanishes.

For me, at least, the moment she disappears from the screen is poignant, foreshadowing what would happen mere weeks later.

Here, then gone.

And far too soon.