Maria A. Lindner was 36 when she vanished from Buffalo, New York. She was last seen February 2, 1980, and at that time was described as a white female, 5 feet 1 inch tall, about 105 pounds, with brown frosted shoulder-length hair and hazel eyes. She was believed to be wearing a white nurse’s uniform with slacks, white shoes with a ribbed sole and a blue star in the heel, a beige canvas coat with fur lining, and pearl earrings.

Reports indicate the prevailing theory is that she was involved in a motor vehicle crash in Ontario. The red and white 1977 Ford Thunderbird she was in, New York plate 942-EKF, reportedly entered the Niagara River at the Niagara River Parkway and Marshall Road in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and it is presumed she drowned in the river’s currents. Her body was never recovered, and the initial belief in a drowning has never been definitively confirmed.

More than four decades later the Erie County Sheriff’s Office still lists the disappearance as an open investigation. Few concrete leads have emerged and the case remains unresolved. If anyone knew Maria, her movements that day, or has information about the Thunderbird or the stretch of river where the crash reportedly occurred, please come forward.