When The Party’s Over: What Happened to Elizabeth Prescott?
The Florida woman had planned a celebration for her husband’s birthday, but disappeared before any festivities could begin.
It was a warm April evening in Callaway, Florida–a small community outside Panama City. At the town’s Walmart, 23-year-old Coy Prescott combs the aisles with his 19-year-old wife, Beth. Tomorrow was Coy’s 24th birthday, and Beth wanted to craft a perfect celebration dinner. Earlier that day, she sought her mother-in-law’s guidance for the meatloaf. For the cake, she wanted to use blue icing to write 6–the number of her husband’s favorite race car driver, Mark Martin.
The couple had only been married for two months. Their apartment was within walking distance of Walmart, which both found convenient because neither owned a car.
Elizabeth Iris Prescott, who preferred to be called Beth, was born on October 5, 1984. She graduated from Rutherford High School. Donna Pagliaicetti, Beth’s stepmother, shared a strong bond with her stepdaughter and acted as a source of support throughout the years.
“[Beth] confides in mom,” Donna told Anthony Cormier of the Panama City Herald in 2004, “She’s a tiny little thing, tall and skinny. But she’s always very jolly, the kind of person…
