Audrey Chin, 20, disappeared from East Norwich, New York on July 8, 1981. She told her family she was going to the supermarket for orange juice, drove her mother’s tan 1976 Chevrolet Nova, and never returned. A few days later the Nova was found abandoned in a Plainview diner parking lot at Old Country Road and South Oyster Bay Road with multiple flat tires. Her purse and wallet were reportedly inside the locked car and cigarette ash was on the floorboard, unusual because Audrey did not smoke.

Friends and family described Audrey as responsible, quiet, a Farmingdale State Agricultural and Technical College student training to be a nurse and working as a typist. She had fainted the day before after cutting her finger and hitting her head; she was examined and released from a hospital. Sisters later found letters revealing a secret relationship with an older married friend of the family, and one sister remembered hearing Audrey crying on the phone the morning she vanished. Her family believes she would not have left voluntarily and fears foul play.

Nassau County police have reportedly taken DNA samples from her sisters as part of a renewed investigation. Does anyone have memories of Audrey, the 1976 Chevrolet Nova, or other information from that summer in 1981 that could help the family?