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Jane Ellen Wakefield was 26 and teaching at Penn Elementary School when she disappeared from Iowa City, Iowa. She was last seen on September 6, 1975, after spending part of the day riding a bicycle with friends and returning to her mobile home at the Bon-Aire Mobile Home Lodge. A neighbor spoke to her shortly after she returned and said she seemed normal; later that evening another neighbor heard someone yelling, though that noise was never investigated. Jane failed to report to work two days later and was reported missing.

Her bicycle was found locked to a yard lamp outside her home and her Fiat was parked in its assigned space. There were no signs of a struggle inside the residence. Investigators at first looked into reports she might have joined a local religious cult, but that theory was dismissed for lack of evidence. Bone fragments and a tooth filling were recovered from an incinerator connected to her husband, John Wakefield, but nothing definitively linked anyone to her disappearance. Jane was declared legally dead in 1982; no remains have been recovered and no charges were filed.

Does anyone who knew Jane or lived at Bon-Aire Mobile Home Lodge in 1975 have information that could help explain what happened that September?