Laura Lollar was 33 when she was reported missing from Peoria, Illinois, on August 22, 2004. A mother of three, she was described as bubbly and compassionate and had regularly checked in with her children; family and friends became alarmed when she went weeks without contact. Her ex-husband and a male friend reported her missing after not hearing from her for several weeks.

Investigators later tied Laura’s disappearance to Larry Bright, a serial killer who confessed to her murder. Bright admitted he picked her up near Madison and Spring streets in Peoria, that she struggled and spoke about her children during the attack, and that he killed her and burned her body in a fire pit in his backyard. He was identified as one of at least eight women killed in Peoria and Tazewell Counties between July 2003 and late 2004.

Laura’s family remember her as a loving mother whose life was taken violently; her death became part of a broader investigation into those killings. If anyone knew Laura, saw her around Madison and Spring in August 2004, or has information about her movements then, please come forward.