Kathleen Dennis, also known as Cathleen or Cathy, was 28 when she vanished from Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 10, 1995. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, she had traveled to Grand Rapids with her sister Deanna a few days earlier. The sisters, both involved in sex work, spent the night drinking at a club and went to the Division area to find clients. Deanna’s last sighting was of Kathleen getting into a light-colored Chevrolet, possibly a 1965–1968 model, at Division and Putnam; when Deanna returned to their hotel by 4 a.m., Kathleen was gone.

Initial attempts to report Kathleen missing met with disinterest, a reaction Deanna attributed to their profession, though an official report was later filed and family members came to Grand Rapids to search. The case became one of many unsolved disappearances and murders of women in the area between late 1993 and late 1996, several involving sex work and drug addiction. In December 2023 a man named Garry Artman, then terminally ill, confessed to multiple killings and gave details that investigators say matched Kathleen’s disappearance, including seeing a Black woman leaving a Division Avenue bar with a cast or sling and disposing of her remains in a dumpster. Her body has not been recovered.

Did anyone in Grand Rapids remember seeing Kathleen that night or the light-colored Chevrolet at Division and Putnam?