Shonna Dannette Wesley was 16 and living in Dallas when she was last seen on May 29, 1981. That same day her two-year-old daughter was found alone at a South Oak Cliff apartment complex wearing only a t-shirt and a diaper; the child wasn’t identified immediately and spent about a week in foster care before Shonna’s mother claimed her.

Shonna had reportedly planned to meet her boyfriend that day. After she disappeared he contacted the family and said Shonna was missing and some of the child’s clothes were gone. Her mother filed a missing persons report on June 2, 1981, and has always maintained Shonna would not have left willingly or abandoned her daughter.

Shonna is described as 5 feet 5 inches, about 130 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a scar on her head. The Dallas Police Department continues to list the case as active; over four decades later the disappearance remains unsolved.

Did anyone in South Oak Cliff in late May 1981 see Shonna or her daughter, or have information about where Shonna planned to meet that day?