Brenda Moore, 19, was last seen in Austin, Texas, on March 7, 1976. She worked as a nurse’s aide and was last reported on the city’s east side at about 3:15 p.m. Five days later her co-workers found her car abandoned on Coleto Street with the keys locked inside. At the time she was separated from her husband, Willie P. Moore, and was believed to be involved with another man who drove a blue Chevrolet pickup truck; her husband suggested she might have left town with that man, but there has been no confirmation.

Brenda’s disappearance is one of three unexplained vanishings of young African-American women in Austin that spring, along with Jennifer Barton and Debra Stewart. Investigators have explored whether the cases could be connected, though no direct evidence ties them together. Her whereabouts remain unknown and the case is unsolved.

If anyone knew Brenda, saw her on or after March 7, 1976, or has information about the blue Chevrolet pickup, please come forward.