Carol Lynn Roberts was 18 when she left Sanford, Florida, in mid-August 1976; records list August 15 as the disappearance date, though some accounts say she may have departed on August 13. She reportedly left near the 90 block of Masters Cove with boyfriend Wayne Madore in a canary-yellow Chevrolet Corvette (described as either a 1974 or 1977 model).

Madore received a traffic citation on August 19, 1976, in Blythe, California, but it is not established whether Carol was still with him then. He later told investigators and Carol’s mother that the two argued in Arizona and that Carol left the car near Red Rock or Red Bluff, Arizona; reports differ and there is no independent confirmation that she entered a tractor-trailer or left with another driver.

Carol was about 5 feet 4 inches and 128 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, a three-and-a-half-inch neck scar, a small blue dot or tattoo on her right forearm, and wore wire-framed glasses or contacts. The Sanford Police Department investigates; her case is in NamUs as MP26838 and police file F16868.

Did anyone who traveled between Arizona and California in August 1976 recall seeing a young woman matching Carol’s description or that distinctive yellow Corvette?