Sarah G. Brown was a young Black single mother living in New Orleans who disappeared after finishing a shift at a Canal Street restaurant on April 16, 1973. She began walking toward the bus stop that evening and never made it home; her purse was later found discarded on Carrollton Avenue. Her son, family and community were left with no leads, and hope of finding her alive faded over the years.

In 2018 Samuel Little, then in a Texas prison, confessed to a killing in New Orleans in 1973 and said the victim’s name might have been Sarah and that she possibly worked at a restaurant. He described offering her a ride, her refusing, then abducting and killing her in a field outside New Orleans; her remains have never been recovered. Little later died in prison in December 2020.

Does anyone have memories or information about Sarah Brown, her work on Canal Street in 1973, or sightings near Carrollton Avenue that could help clarify what happened?