Nadine Jean O’Dell was 16 when she disappeared from Inkster, Michigan, on the morning of August 16, 1974. She was walking along John Daly Road toward Michigan Avenue to babysit at her boyfriend’s house in Taylor; he had planned to meet her partway but she never reached the meeting point. She was last seen wearing faded, baggy blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and her boyfriend’s Taylor High School class of 1976 ring on a chain around her neck.

Her family says Nadine would not have run away; her sister Brenda remembered her as a quiet girl who frequently babysat. The case stayed cold for decades. In 2018 investigators named suspected serial killer Arthur Ream as a possible perpetrator and carried out a week-long excavation on a Macomb Township property where remains had been recovered in a separate case, but no human remains belonging to Nadine were found. Coral Eugene Watts has also been mentioned as a possible connection. No body or direct evidence has linked anyone to her disappearance and no arrests have been made; she is classified as an endangered missing person and is widely believed to have been murdered.

Are there readers who remember seeing Nadine that morning or who have information about her movements in Inkster or Taylor?