Patricia Gay Toliver, 43, was last seen August 12, 1978, at her home in Modesto, California. She had recently returned from a family reunion in South Dakota where she reportedly told relatives she feared her husband, James Carlin Toliver, had threatened her life. Family members said it was out of character that Patricia did not come out to say goodbye when they visited the day before she vanished.

Patricia’s personal effects — makeup, luggage, and identification — were left at the home, and she never collected her final paycheck. James Toliver told family she was missing and later claimed she had taken money from their joint account. He failed a lie detector test, but no charges were filed for Patricia’s disappearance. James became a suspect in several disappearances and died in 1980 during an attempted escape from the murder scene of another woman, Florence Richina. Foul play is strongly suspected in Patricia’s disappearance and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Patricia, her routines, or saw her in Modesto around August 1978, does that information still exist?