Michelle Deanne Crawford was 21 and a junior at Cameron University when she disappeared from Lawton, Oklahoma. On the evening of June 8, 1999, she told her parents she was going to the movies with a friend. She never returned home and missed a work shift the next day, prompting her parents to report her missing to the Lawton Police Department.

Investigators quickly found a puzzling inconsistency: Michelle’s two closest friends said they had no plans to go to the movies with her that night. On June 13 a 1986 gray Honda Accord she had been driving was located parked crookedly in the 1100 block of East Gore Boulevard, between a Best Western Hotel and the Montego Bay Apartments. The car was locked except for the driver’s door and contained her purse and other personal items, but Michelle was not there. Her bank account and Social Security number have not been used since.

Foul play is suspected, and an unconfirmed theory places possible remains on private property in the Mountain View area, though that has not been substantiated. The case remains open with the Lawton Police Department. If anyone knew Michelle, saw her car in East Gore Boulevard in June 1999, or has information about the Mountain View lead, please come forward.