Tot Harriman, born Tran Thi Tot in February 1944, disappeared on July 12, 2001, while driving from League City, Texas, toward Corpus Christi. She left her son’s home at 5 a.m. in a metallic rose 1995 Lincoln Continental with a custom Florida plate reading TOTSY. She was wearing a shirt, shorts, sandals and gold rings and bracelets, and had told family her planned route and stops to look at potential properties as she intended to relocate to Texas.

Extensive searches turned up no confirmed trace of Tot or her car. Multiple reported sightings of the Lincoln always arrived one or two days after they would have been relevant, and private investigators and volunteers searched along Texas Route 35 without success. There are no confirmed suspects or arrests. Some have suggested she may have been robbed and killed because of the jewelry she wore, but no concrete evidence supporting that theory has been reported.

Tot had worked as a maid and seamstress in Vietnam, married Clinton H. Harriman in 1968, later lived in Maine and served as a translator for Vietnamese refugees. At the time she vanished she was financially stable and looking to invest in real estate. Does anyone who drove Route 35 in July 2001 remember seeing a metallic rose Lincoln Continental with a TOTSY plate or anything unusual that morning?