Sharon Hensley was 24 when she disappeared from Sulphur, Louisiana, in 1973. She was last seen that year in the company of her then-boyfriend, Felix Vail, who family and later testimony say exerted strong control over her life. Her family never heard from her again after that contact.

Decades later, renewed reporting into Vail’s history uncovered a pattern: several women connected to him either died under suspicious circumstances or vanished, including Vail’s first wife, Mary Horton Vail, whose 1962 murder eventually led to Vail’s arrest and 2016 conviction. During that trial the disappearances of Sharon Hensley and another wife, Annette Craver Vail, who vanished in 1984, were introduced as evidence; Sharon’s brother also testified about her disappearance. Authorities suspect foul play in Hensley’s case, and Vail was the last person known to see her alive, but he was never formally charged in connection with her disappearance and no body has been found.

Did anyone in Sulphur or the surrounding area know Sharon, her habits, or where she might have gone after 1973?