Gracie Nash, 39, was last seen after finishing her night shift at Eastfare Nursing Home in Austin, Texas, on December 26, 1983. She left work at about 11:00 p.m. wearing a white nurse’s uniform and a gray coat with a large fur collar and never made it home.

Two days later a green and white 1971 Chevrolet registered to Nash was found abandoned near East 22nd Street. Investigators found large amounts of blood inside the car, consistent with a violent assault, but Nash herself was missing and has never been located. Her disappearance came amid violence affecting the family: weeks earlier her brother Melvin had been shot by his ex-girlfriend Naomi Easley, and six weeks after Nash vanished another brother, John Davis, was shot and killed outside his home. Easley was questioned about Nash’s disappearance and Davis’s murder but was not charged in those cases.

The Austin Police Department lists the case as open and urges anyone with information to come forward. Did anyone in Austin in late December 1983 see Gracie Nash or her green and white 1971 Chevrolet?