Phyllis Marie Corbin was 16 and living at the House of Good Shepherd, a juvenile shelter on Gravois Avenue in St. Louis, when she and another girl ran away together in early November 1963. They were reportedly given a ride to a Greyhound bus station planning to go to New Orleans. The other girl may have returned to St. Louis about three weeks later, but that is not confirmed and Phyllis was not with her.

The first confirmed record after her departure places Phyllis in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in January 1965. She was arrested in or near Gretna on January 25, 1965, and fingerprinted. At booking she began signing Corbin before changing to Sommers and appears to have altered her birth year to 1945, apparently to present as an adult. That arrest is the last confirmed trace; no further known arrests or confirmed sightings are reported.

Phyllis was described at the time she disappeared as a white female with brown or reddish-brown wavy hair, blue eyes, and between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is the investigating agency. Does anyone have information about Phyllis Corbin’s whereabouts after January 1965 or remember seeing her under the name Sommers?