Carol Frances Norton was 25 when she disappeared from her trailer home in El Cerrito, California, on June 2, 1965. She was described as slender and nearly blind. The next day her sister found the lights on and coffee still on the stove, but Carol was gone.

Suspicion centered on her husband, Harvey Arnold Norton. In July 1965 he was arrested for a Texas bank robbery and told investigators he and Carol had argued and he left her at a motel in Portland, Oregon on June 14. Harvey’s 1964 Lincoln was later found abandoned in Corpus Christi, Texas with bloodstained floor mats, human hair, and a shovel inside. His subsequent violent history—he fatally shot a teenage boy and then killed himself in Marshall, Texas in 1971—added to concerns about Carol’s fate. Carol’s body has never been found and the disappearance remains unsolved.