Theresa Brown was 22 and living in Lenexa, Kansas, when she and her roommate, Christine Rusch, were last seen together on the evening of June 25, 1989. Brown, a Camdenton High School graduate working as a dental assistant and hoping to become a dental hygienist, shared an apartment at the Trafalgar Square complex. Both women failed to report to work after a call the next day saying they were ill, and were subsequently reported missing.

Investigators later tied their disappearances to that of Joan Butler, who had vanished from her Overland Park apartment days earlier. On June 28, police found a suspect’s car in Grandview, Missouri, containing personal items belonging to Brown and Rusch, including jewelry, credit cards and a key to their apartment. The vehicle belonged to Richard Grissom Jr., a painter and maintenance worker who had access to master keys for multiple complexes.

Grissom was arrested July 7, 1989, and in 1990 a Johnson County jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the deaths of Theresa Brown, Christine Rusch and Joan Butler; he received four life terms. The location of the women’s remains has never been disclosed and extensive searches have not recovered their bodies. Did anyone who knew Theresa or where she worked in Lenexa in 1989 see anything that could help locate her remains?