Adrianne Gilliam was 19 when she was last seen in San Jose, California, on June 22, 1979. She had met Gary Neal Johnson in 1977 while hitchhiking; they became a couple, traveled together, and later settled in San Jose where both worked and shared an apartment. On the day she vanished Adrianne was sent home from her nursing aide job for not wearing her uniform; Johnson said she returned home and disappeared soon after.

Adrianne’s body has never been recovered. Johnson was later convicted in the 1980s of her murder based largely on testimony from Adrianne’s family; he has consistently denied involvement and says a prison informant falsely implicated him. He was also convicted of an unrelated murder in the late 1980s and has admitted that crime, while continuing to seek to overturn the conviction in Adrianne’s case. Early in the investigation Johnson reported her missing but was reportedly told to wait before an official report was taken, a delay that the family and others have said complicated the case.

Does anyone who knew Adrianne or the neighborhood in 1979 have memories or information that could shed light on what happened that day?