Leigh Ann Hart was 33 when she was last seen in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on May 31, 1988, in or near Manistique. A mother with brown hair and blue eyes, she failed to appear at a scheduled trial on August 17, 1988, where she faced embezzlement charges for allegedly selling a fraudulent bond. Authorities at one point treated the case as a possible flight to avoid prosecution, and a federal warrant for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution was issued in September 1994.

The last reported sighting was by one of her sons, who remembered his father putting her on a Greyhound bus in Manistique with the understanding she was going to a hospital. Years later a package from Montana surfaced containing odd items: a book about bears, lottery tickets, a funeral home notice and a fabricated death certificate made from her deceased son’s certificate, plus a letter asking that her belongings be sent to her ex-husband and son. The altered death certificate suggested a staged death, but any life insurance payout could not be made because her death could not be proven.

What information might help clarify whether Leigh left voluntarily, was sent away by others, or met with foul play?