Barbara Nave, 80, disappeared from her home on Tondaleia Drive in Sumter, South Carolina, after last being heard from on February 9, 2017. Described as feisty and independent, she was actively pursuing a second doctorate, taught English and acculturation to international employees, traveled extensively, and bred and showed dogs.

A friend checking on her found the front door open, Barbara’s purse with money and credit cards inside, her car in the driveway with the windows partially down, and her Lhasa Apso dogs left without food or water; one sick dog had died. A construction crew reported seeing her walk into the woods behind her home, apparently searching for a dog, which is the last known sighting. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office searched the 20-acre property with helicopters and cadaver dogs and interviewed family and acquaintances but turned up no trace. There has been no financial activity on her accounts since her disappearance.

Does anyone who lived in that area in early 2017 remember seeing Barbara or her dogs near the woods behind her property?