Verna Clayton, 65, disappeared from Dolan Springs, Arizona, on May 19, 2008. In the months before she vanished she reportedly liquidated financial assets and had begun an online relationship with a man she planned to travel with in an RV. That man was later identified as Robert Lawson Carnochan, who used multiple aliases.

Investigators later found links between Clayton’s disappearance and two other women, Neva Lindley and Nancy Hartz. All three had met Carnochan online, cashed out assets shortly before vanishing, and were last seen within about a hundred-mile radius of one another. Evidence recovered at Carnochan’s residence prompted renewed focus on the cases. Carnochan was arrested on April 13, 2016, and convicted of multiple counts of fraud, theft, and forgery; Nancy Hartz’s remains were later found near Topock, Arizona. Carnochan died in prison on September 25, 2020.

Verna Clayton has never been located and the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office continues to list her case as an open investigation. Does anyone who knew Verna or frequented Dolan Springs in 2008 have information that could help investigators?