Barbara Holik, a 33-year-old artist born in Germany, disappeared from Taos, New Mexico, after an evening out on June 23, 1995. She lived in Taos since 1989 and was known locally for handcrafted jewelry and pottery. She was last seen leaving El Patio Bar near Taos Plaza to walk home around 11:00 p.m., something she reportedly did often, and showed no signs of distress.

When she missed work on June 26, her employer checked her apartment and found personal items—including her purse, passport, and thousands of dollars in cash—left behind and the residence apparently undisturbed. Two work gloves were found oddly out of place. A few days later a maid found one of Barbara’s shoes in a neighboring apartment that four men had recently vacated; that apartment had a severed telephone cord and missing bedding, but it had been cleaned before police were alerted.

Police followed many leads over the years, including searches of a grave near Tres Piedras and an apparent bloodstained shirt found years later, but no significant breakthrough has been reported and Barbara has never been found. Does anyone have information about where she lived, who she knew in Taos, or what those neighboring occupants were doing around June 1995?