Barbara Hardeman Wooden, 63, vanished after leaving Chester Frost Campgrounds in Hamilton County, Tennessee on October 23, 1998. Her husband said she left in her 1995 black Lexus SC400 to visit her mother in Rhea County and remarked she might not be home when he returned. She was reported missing three days later when neither she, her car, nor a packed suitcase were at their residence.

The Lexus turned up in a Cobb County, Georgia parking lot on October 24, a day after she was last seen. Investigators say the car’s location suggested it may have been deliberately left to imply she began a new life in Atlanta, a theory detectives have largely dismissed as they suspect foul play. Wooden was a mother of four who was in frequent contact with family and had been planning Thanksgiving and Christmas with her grandchildren shortly before disappearing.

The Hamilton County District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit later took on the investigation, which remains open. Does anyone who knew Barbara or saw that Lexus in late October 1998 have information that could help explain where she went?