Diane Marie Webb was 17 when she disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona, in the spring of 1959. Her family had moved to Dolan Springs earlier that year, but Diane remained in Phoenix with her 16-year-old husband, Bennie Milton Webb, after they married in Indio, California. Diane notified her family she was pregnant and stayed in contact by letters; the last mail arrived August 22, 1959, a birthday card and crocheted handkerchiefs to her younger sister.

More than a year later Bennie wrote the family, saying he hadn’t seen Diane in a long time and that he last gave her $100 and put her on a bus to return to her family; he also said she had written once after that about a miscarriage. There is no evidence Diane boarded a bus, and Bennie’s later statements and reported refusal to cooperate with investigators have not been verified in this account. Skeletal remains found in the Catalina Mountains in November 1967 were once thought to be Diane’s, but maternal rejection at the time was later borne out when DNA testing in 2013 excluded her.

Who knew Diane, where she lived after August 1959, or saw her in that autumn of 1959?