Evelyn Throsby Scott, 63, of Los Angeles, was last seen on May 16, 1955. That afternoon she and her husband, Leonard Ewing Scott, test drove a new car. The next day a man, likely Ewing, called her hair salon and canceled all future appointments; Evelyn had abruptly stopped attending her regular weekly hairdresser visits after she vanished.

Friends and family grew alarmed when Ewing refused to file a missing person report and later offered changing explanations for Evelyn’s absence, including that she had entered a sanitarium or left him. In March 1956 her brother E. Raymond Throsby filed for guardianship of her estate and reported her missing. Police searching the Scotts’ property found Evelyn’s eyeglasses, dentures, and medication discarded nearby.

Although no body has ever been recovered, investigators charged Ewing with murder after learning he had been forging Evelyn’s signatures to access her substantial fortune; he was convicted in 1957, sentenced to life, and released in 1978. Evelyn’s disappearance remains unsolved and her body has never been found. Does anyone have information about Evelyn’s movements in mid-May 1955 or about the Scotts’ whereabouts after May 16?