Carol Ann Batterman was 19 and newly married when she disappeared on the afternoon of May 31, 1958, in Moore, Oklahoma. She was last seen about 3:35 p.m. in front of the Crown Motel waiting for a bus to meet her husband at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman. She wore a beige suit, high heels, carried a small white purse (believed to hold about $35), and had on her 1956 class ring and a wedding band engraved DB to CH -5/17/58 with thirteen stars.

Carol left all other personal belongings in the motel room she shared with her husband, including luggage, clothing, makeup, and a significant amount of cash, and her savings account was not touched. An eyewitness said a gray pickup, possibly a 1953 Ford, pulled up and a slender man about six feet tall in khaki and a large western-style hat spoke with her; when the witness looked back both Carol and the truck were gone. Investigators have long suspected she was taken against her will, her husband was not considered a suspect, and the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office still holds the case file.

Does anyone have memories or information about the Crown Motel area, that gray pickup, or other details from Moore in 1958 that could help this cold case?