Elsie Brack was 50 when she vanished from her Slate Street home in the Hays neighborhood of Pittsburgh on June 2, 1980. She was described as a woman of average height with black hair and brown eyes. On the day she was last seen she wore dark pants, a red blouse, a navy blue or black three-quarter length coat, and denim tennis shoes.

Family members hoped she might have been heading for their cabin in Tionesta, but there is no evidence she ever arrived. A friend later said Elsie had been feeling depressed in the period before she disappeared. In the days after she vanished two taxi drivers separately reported giving rides to women who matched her photograph — one to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport and another to Bellevue — but neither lead was confirmed.

Elsie was declared legally dead in 1987, and her disappearance remains unsolved.