Barbara Frame was 38 and a mother of three when she disappeared from Zanesville, Ohio, in the winter of 1985. Recently divorced and employed at United Technologies, she left home on Alice Street on the evening of January 30 after her ex-husband told her she needed to go to her lawyer’s office to sign papers. She told her children she’d be back soon to finish cooking dinner and took her coat and purse.

When Barbara failed to report to work the next day—she had a five-year perfect attendance record—her family grew alarmed. Her car was found abandoned in a parking lot on Linden Avenue across from her workplace; it was not in her usual spot and contained the coat and purse her family said she would never have willingly left behind. Her attorney later confirmed no appointment had been scheduled that night. Investigators examined her ex-husband, who was reported to have been abusive and to have made threats; he took two polygraph tests that were inconclusive. The case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Barbara, her routine, or saw her car in late January 1985, please share what you remember.