Joanne Dexter was 30 when she was last seen in West Islip, New York, on March 30, 1977. The basic fact recorded is that she left her home on that day and never returned. At the time she went missing she was described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, about 120 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, wearing a dark-colored jacket and blue pants.

Born Joanne Biagia, she married Paul Migliore at 17 and had three children; that marriage ended around 1975. She remained living at 90 Paris Court with the children while Migliore moved to Florida. Between 1975 and 1976 she married Tommy Dexter. Tommy had a history of heavy drinking, drug use, and a 1970 bank robbery conviction that carried a four-year sentence; he was arrested in late 1976 for an attempted bank robbery and Joanne’s West Islip address was listed in news accounts. It is not clear whether he was incarcerated when Joanne disappeared.

A foreclosure action was started on the house in 1978. Both of Joanne’s former husbands are deceased. The disappearance left her children and mother without answers and the investigation remains open. Did anyone in West Islip around March 1977 have contact with Joanne or recall seeing her that day?