The Perfect Couple: The Surfer and the Cheerleader
It was 1978, and Jim Alt, a surfer, and his cheerleader girlfriend Barbara Nantais were the perfect, all-American, young couple. You can just picture their yearbook pages being filled with well-wishing hopes for the future. No one expected that one of these high school sweethearts wouldn’t make it to graduation.
Source: CBS News
Over the years, Jim has been interviewed time and time again about what happened on August 12, 1978. And each time, the conversations were laced with one thread running through: What was his role in Barbara Nantais’s death?
Barbara, a 15-year-old sophomore, was popular at her high school in Lakewood, California. She had just made the varsity cheerleading squad, and she was described as smart, outspoken and strong-willed.