Stanina Ignjatovic, a 54-year-old Serbian immigrant, was last heard from on the morning of April 15, 1999. She called a relative from her Conselyea Street apartment in Brooklyn and said she planned to go to Manhattan to visit her sister, but she never arrived and no further contact is known. Her own apartment showed no signs of forced entry or struggle.

The months and years before her disappearance were marked by escalating conflict with her landlord, Marion Okuniewski. An electrical fire in 1997 left her rent-controlled apartment uninhabitable; after repairs stalled she and a tenant advocacy group took the landlord to Housing Court. Both Stanina and the tenant advocate reported receiving threats, the advocate’s home was later the target of an unsolved arson, and Stanina’s temporary apartment was burglarized three times with clothing and furniture slashed and court papers stolen.

A key hearing in the housing dispute was scheduled five days after Stanina was last seen. Her landlord denied any wrongdoing or personal issues with her. The circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown and unsolved.

If anyone knew Stanina, her routines, or saw her around Brooklyn or Manhattan in April 1999, can you come forward with what you remember?