Betty Dyer was 42 when she disappeared from Mansfield, Ohio, in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve 1972. A beautician and widowed mother of six, she lived with two of her children and was last seen about 6:00 a.m. at the Park Avenue East Laundromat. Her car was found parked outside with neatly folded clean clothes inside, but Betty herself was gone and has not been seen or heard from since.

At the time she was described as a white woman with red hair and blue or blue/green eyes, between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 115 to 125 pounds, wearing a brown suede car coat, brown pants and brown loafers with tassels. She wore a full set of dentures.

In 1995 Lawrence Davis, already serving a sentence in Louisiana for rape and murder, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in connection with Dyer’s disappearance. He said he had helped dispose of her body and led officers to a wooded area, but searches there did not recover remains. Davis received a twenty-year sentence concurrent with his existing term. Betty Dyer’s body has never been found.

If anyone knew Betty, saw her on New Year’s Eve 1972, or has information about the area she was taken to, please come forward.