Debra Jean Vaughn was 36 and living in Greers Ferry, Arkansas, when she was last seen leaving her mother’s home at about 6:00 a.m. on July 24, 1993. The day before she disappeared she’d had a physical argument with her husband, Gerald W. Vaughan, and had spent the night at her mother’s with plans to return to the trailer to collect belongings. Her blue 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo also vanished and has not been found.

Gerald told Debra’s mother he later received a phone call from Debra and thought she had chosen a transient lifestyle; Debra’s mother disagreed, saying her daughter always stayed in touch and that Gerald normally would have searched if Debra were gone for hours. Law enforcement was notified within days or weeks, but a formal investigation did not begin until January 1994. A few months after that, clothing, jewelry, makeup, a sewing machine and family heirlooms were recovered in a junk pile in Pine Snag in southern Cleburne County; more valuable items remained in a safe deposit box.

Gerald, as the last person known to have seen Debra, is a person of interest but has never been charged. The case remains open and her family believes she and her car may be in Greers Ferry Lake. Did anyone in the Greers Ferry area see Debra or her Monte Carlo in July 1993?