Sally J. Rawlings was 34 when she disappeared from Oklahoma City on May 26, 1982. That morning she had breakfast with her young daughter Kimberly at the Kirkpatrick Hotel, dropped Kimberly at daycare, and never arrived at her job as a secretary at Kerr-McGee. She also never returned to the hotel or to pick up her child.

Within days the investigation focused on her recently divorced ex-husband, commercial pilot Gary Lee Rawlings, who had been staying at his mother’s home in Colorado and traveled to Oklahoma City in the days before the disappearance. On May 26 he rented a Plymouth Fury and a Cessna 150 and made fuel stops in Dallas and Houston. Investigators reported blood in the rental car and plane that testing at the time matched Sally’s markers, a large cloth bundle seen in the plane, and a .44 Magnum with blood found at his mother Loretta’s house. Envelopes and a money order tied to letters purportedly from Sally bore Gary’s fingerprints. Loretta contacted police, saying she suspected her son had killed Sally.

Gary Lee Rawlings was convicted of first-degree murder in 1987; Sally’s body has never been found. Does anyone have memories of Sally, Kimberly, or the Kirkpatrick Hotel in 1982 that could add context to the disappearance?