Jeanette Maria Corpuz was 28 and living in Reno, Nevada, when she vanished after a phone call to her ex-husband on January 21, 2003. She had recently married Lyle Marsh Montgomery, 14 years her senior, after meeting him at a local Super Kmart. Jeanette had told police Montgomery was abusive and had threatened her life, and on January 13 she told a real estate agent she planned to divorce him and move with her young son to Redding, California.

The child was found alone in the toy department of a Shopko in Salt Lake City on January 25; surveillance shows Montgomery leaving the boy there. He was later arrested for misdemeanor child abuse. A search of the couple’s Reno home turned up the bed and dresser from the master bedroom missing and a large amount of blood that soaked through carpet and padding to the wood floor. DNA testing tied the blood to Jeanette, and investigators treated her disappearance as a homicide. Montgomery attempted suicide after questioning and later died by suicide in April 2003 after his release on bail. The case remains officially unsolved.

If anyone knew Jeanette, her movements in late January 2003, or saw the couple in Reno or Salt Lake City, please come forward with information.