Gail Deann Skelton, 26, of Stockton, California, vanished after attending a party at Herman and Helen’s Marina on the Empire Tract southwest of Lodi on September 26, 1980. She was last seen wearing a blue plaid flannel shirt and jeans. Her blue 1978 two-door Toyota was also never found.

At the party witnesses said a Caucasian man, 25 to 30 years old, over six feet tall, with dark hair and a thin build, was reported to have harassed Gail; a composite sketch was later released but it is unclear whether he was identified or considered a suspect. Three months earlier her fiancé, Pat Malone, had drowned in the Mokelumne River; his death was ruled accidental, though friends and family questioned that finding and Gail was grieving at the time she disappeared.

No definitive evidence has emerged to explain Gail’s disappearance and her family continues to seek answers. Does anyone have information about Herman and Helen’s Marina on the Empire Tract or recall seeing a blue 1978 two-door Toyota in late September 1980?