Sharon Maxwell was 19 when she was last seen on August 15, 1976, in the 2000 block of W. 22nd Place in Chicago. She left a residence where she had been with two other people and was never seen again. Reports describe her as a Black female with brown eyes and black hair, between five feet six and five feet eight inches tall, weighing about 160 to 170 pounds.

The investigation is handled by the Chicago Police Department’s Area Central; her case is listed in national missing persons databases and DNA from her sister and daughter has been made available for comparison.

22nd Place in 1976, or the people she was with that day?