Melba Stribling, 92, was last seen in Alpharetta, Georgia, in October 2008. Living in Forsyth County, her life was described as quiet and unassuming; after that last contact she vanished and there were no immediate signs about her whereabouts.

Her disappearance did not come to light until 2016, when it was discovered her pension checks had been collected consistently since 2008. A missing persons report was filed on June 2, 2016, and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation. There are few witnesses and scarce clues about her final movements, and no public reports in the file explicitly state foul play.

A central unresolved question is who collected her pension checks for roughly eight years while her absence went unreported. Does anyone have information about Melba’s life, contacts, or where she might have been in 2008?