Shelly Renee Markley, 32, and her husband John vanished from their Greenville Road home in Bristolville, Ohio, in the winter of 1995. Their five children came home from school to an empty house with several items left as if the couple intended to return: a coffee pot nearly boiled dry, Shelly’s cigarettes and lighter, and John’s wristwatch on a shelf. A gun cabinet and a small safe were open and papers scattered; clothes for a funeral two days earlier were laid out on the unmade bed.

The last confirmed sighting was that morning at a bank drive-thru about five miles away. A bank teller who knew them saw John driving their red and silver Chevrolet pickup with Shelly in the middle seat and an unidentified man beside her; Shelly cashed a $1,000 check on the dashboard. Days later the pickup was found locked and abandoned about ten miles from home, keys missing but the couple’s cell phone inside. Tarps normally used to cover John’s 1978 Corvette were in the truck bed and the truck was unusually muddy.

Foul play is suspected and the investigation remains open with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office. A former employee, Steven Durst, was later convicted of extortion after claiming to hold the couple for ransom, but investigators concluded he likely had no genuine information. Does anyone remember seeing the Markleys, their pickup, or the unidentified man on that morning?