Ruby Geneva McClain was 61 when she walked away from Crafts Farrow Hospital, a state psychiatric facility in Columbia, South Carolina, in mid-December 1988. Reports differ on whether she was last seen December 17 or 18. At the time she left the hospital on foot she was wearing a thin multicolored dress, a thin blue jacket, and blue sneakers.

Ruby was diabetic and required constant access to water, which made her disappearance particularly worrying. She is described as a Caucasian woman with white hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 175 to 185 pounds, with scars on both the left and right sides of her back. The facility later became known as the South Carolina State Hospital and is now closed.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department investigated; despite decades passing there have been no significant leads and the case remains open and unresolved. If anyone knew Ruby, saw her in mid-December 1988, or has information about her whereabouts, please come forward.