Demetris Robinson was 42 when she vanished from Dixmoor, Illinois, in the early hours of a cold winter morning in 2000. She had been visiting her sister with her son and niece, and after attending to a neighbor’s house for condolences she and her sister split up; a disagreement with the neighbor reportedly followed. Around 1:30 a.m. Demetris called her niece from a payphone asking for a ride; the niece told her to walk back to the sister’s and that she would be picked up there.

When the niece arrived minutes later, Demetris was gone. A neighbor later said they saw her get into a yellow car but could not tell whether the driver was male or female. At the time she disappeared she wore blue jeans, a white beer-logo t-shirt, a green military-style jacket over a copper-colored jacket, and white, red, and blue Fila gym shoes; she had long brown hair in a ponytail and scars on her legs. Family say her disappearance was out of character and that authorities did not list her missing for about a month; the investigation is now cold with few leads.

Does anyone have information about that night, the yellow car, or Demetris’s whereabouts?