Patsy L. Baker, 42, was last seen on June 3, 1999, at a dentist’s office in Mountain View, Arkansas, after recently moving there from Marked Tree with her boyfriend, Danny Noel Taylor. The couple had rented an apartment in Mountain View. Patsy was not reported missing until the following month, and family members last heard from her in July 1999 when she spoke of possibly traveling with a truck driver known to them as Tim.

Taylor told investigators he had dropped Patsy off with that truck driver at a truck stop but could not recall where. Patsy’s vehicle turned up in Marked Tree in 2001, and investigators say there is no paper trail for her after 1999 — no records of incarceration, hospitalization, or death in the United States. Taylor became a person of interest after he murdered a 72-year-old woman, Marietta Whetnall, in Mountain View in September 1999; he later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in that case in January 2009.

The disappearance remains unsolved and the family has had no contact from Patsy, including after her adult son’s death in October 2005, which they believe she may not have known about. Anyone who knew Patsy, her movements in 1999, or the truck driver called Tim is asked to come forward with information.