Irene Silverman was 82 when she was last seen at her Upper East Side townhouse on July 5, 1998. A former ballerina and wealthy widow, she had converted the six-story mansion into high-rent apartments. In June 1998 a tenant using the name Manny Guerrin moved in; he was actually Kenneth Kimes, who lived there with his mother Sante Kimes.

Silverman told friends on the night of July 4 that she planned to evict the new tenant. The next morning her housekeeper could not reach her and found the door locked; police were notified that afternoon and Silverman has not been seen since. When Sante and Kenneth Kimes were arrested the same day Silverman was reported missing, authorities recovered Silverman’s keys, passports, Social Security card, blank checks, loaded firearms, wigs, masks, plastic handcuffs, an empty stun gun box, and a forged deed transferring her townhouse to a shell corporation. Investigators say the Kimeses had been monitoring Silverman and that the disappearance was tied to a scheme to take her home, valued at over $7 million.

Do readers have any information about Silverman’s movements in late June or early July 1998, or about who might have seen her at the townhouse?