Cynthia Jo St. John, 36, was last seen and heard from in Fairbanks, Alaska, on February 27, 1995. She worked at a local McDonald’s and her last known contact with family was a phone call to her parents. A few months earlier she had called from Denver asking her parents in Mississippi to wire her $500. When her parents, Clinton and Lyla Watson, could no longer reach Cynthia they reported her missing.

In May 1995 the case took a violent turn: Clinton and Lyla Watson were found shot to death at their Mississippi home. Cynthia’s husband, Roger St. John, became the focus of that investigation. He was later found dead of a drug overdose in a Little Rock, Arkansas, hotel room; a fourteen-page note left by Roger claimed responsibility for the killings of his in-laws and said their treatment of Cynthia had driven her to take her own life. The note did not say where Cynthia might be, and Cynthia’s whereabouts have never been verified.

Foul play is strongly suspected in Cynthia’s disappearance, but her fate remains unknown. Anyone who knew Cynthia, her movements in Fairbanks, or has information about her last days is asked to come forward.