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Margie Lee Phillips, 31 and a mother of four, vanished from Fort Myers, Florida, on April 22, 1976. That day she and her boyfriend, Willie Lee Battles, reportedly went to the First Federal Savings and Loan Office so Margie could withdraw money for a car. Battles says he fell asleep in the car and woke to find Margie gone and the bank closed, but bank employees later said they did not see her enter and no transactions appeared on her account that day.

Witnesses later placed the couple driving north on U.S. 41 after the alleged bank visit, and suspicion centered on Battles; he has been questioned repeatedly but never charged for lack of concrete evidence. Margie supported her family as a house cleaner and it was reportedly out of character for her to leave her children without notice, so authorities have long suspected foul play. The case remains unsolved and the family continues to seek answers.

Did anyone in Fort Myers in April 1976 see Margie or the car they were driving on U.S. 41?