A 17-year-old girl named Ila Veronica Tucker Maynard disappeared from Greensboro, North Carolina, in December 1974. She was last seen on December 4 leaving her father’s home on foot; her mother reported her missing the next day. At the time she was wearing a gray Cleopatra-style coat, blue pants, and platform shoes, and she left without a purse, money, or identification.

Described as a Black female with brown eyes and black hair often worn in weaves, Ila’s case drew an early police investigation but produced few leads and eventually went cold. Her family has continued to seek answers; DNA samples from her daughter and two sisters have been entered into national databases to try to generate new leads.

What did anyone in Greensboro see or remember about Ila in December 1974 that could help finally resolve her disappearance?