Cindy May Brown, 22, was last seen in Roseville, Minnesota, on July 29, 1980. She was described as a white female, 5 feet 2 inches, about 110 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes and a scar along her left pinky finger from the palm to the tip. Her roommate, Patrick Thomas Walsh, told police she had left for California in a brown van with another woman and two men and her disappearance was initially treated as a voluntary departure; she wasn’t reported missing until four and a half months later.

Walsh’s criminal history later drew intense scrutiny. He had previously been found not guilty by reason of insanity in an attempted murder case and was identified as a person of interest after investigators reclassified Brown’s case as a possible homicide. Subsequent violent incidents connected to Walsh, including the 1984 stabbing death of Cindy Gerdes and the later murder conviction in the killing of Pamela Susan Sweeney, prompted law enforcement to re-examine Brown’s disappearance. No direct evidence tying Walsh to Cindy Brown has been reported, and her body has never been found.

Does anyone who knew Cindy, her movements in July 1980, or the people she associated with have information that could help locate her or clarify what happened?