Lindsay Marie Wells was 22 and nine months pregnant when she disappeared from her Simi Valley, California, home on March 29, 1999. She was last seen asleep at the residence she shared with her fiancé and his mother. Lindsay missed a scheduled welfare appointment that morning and a doctor’s appointment the following day; her fiancé reported her missing on March 31. She left behind her engagement ring and identification, taking only her wallet and keys, and also left a four-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

Investigators learned Lindsay, who did not own a car, never returned to pick up her last welfare check. Foul play is strongly suspected because of her advanced pregnancy and the circumstances of her disappearance. In 2001 a prisoner said another inmate had confessed to killing Lindsay after she allegedly interrupted illegal activity at a methamphetamine lab, but that claim was never verified and the case remains unsolved.