Charlotte Estelle Rexroad, 34, vanished from Canton, Ohio, after an evening out on March 11, 1970. She left the McKinley Hotel with her boyfriend of five years, Freeman Red Wyne Jr., saying they were going to a laundromat but instead ended up at Benny Petsy’s Hub Cafe on Tuscarawas Avenue. Charlotte was last seen there wearing a gray coat, pink blouse, blue skirt, blue scarf, and brown slippers.

Wyne gave police conflicting versions of the night, once saying Charlotte danced with other men and left with one while he was in the restroom, and another time saying she left with a man and a woman. He returned alone, intoxicated, and was arrested for public intoxication; Charlotte’s eldest daughter, then 14, reported her missing the same day and told police she feared Wyne had harmed her mother. The children were placed in foster care after Charlotte vanished; the eldest lived with an uncle and the younger three were later adopted.

Wyne was interviewed twice in the days after the disappearance and had no further police contact until two daughters located him in West Virginia in 1996, by which time he said he had little memory of that night. Wyne died in 2008. Foul play is suspected and the case remains unsolved and listed as endangered missing. Does anyone have memories of Benny Petsy’s Hub Cafe or that area of Tuscarawas Avenue in 1970, or information about Charlotte’s whereabouts that could help her family?