Traci Lynn Douglass, 44, disappeared from Salamanca, New York, in late January or early February 2007. She was living in Salamanca and was close to her daughter and aunt, yet she was never reported missing at the time. Investigators place her last known alive date in that late winter window of 2007.

Skeletal remains were recovered by a fisherman on September 9, 2009, along the western shoreline of the Allegany Reservoir in the town of South Valley. Identification was not made until investigators used STR DNA profiling nearly two years later to confirm the remains as those of Traci Lynn Douglass. Her death was then classified as a cold case homicide and assigned to the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit.

No arrests have been announced and the circumstances of her death remain under investigation. Anyone with information that could help resolve what happened to Traci Lynn Douglass is asked to come forward.