Frankie Viola Hurst was 25 when she made her last known contact on Mother’s Day, May 14, 1989, calling her adopted mother from Kansas. A mother of four from Anderson, South Carolina, Frankie lived a highly transient life and commonly hitchhiked or traveled by bus and train to states including Florida, Virginia, Kansas, Ohio and South Carolina. Family reports mention unconfirmed rumors she may have been to California or Arizona.

She was described as a white female with curly, thick dark brown hair often shoulder length, green eyes, pierced ears, and scars — one on her neck from a pony bite as a child, plus scars on her right wrist and stomach. At the time she wore tight jeans, t-shirts, tennis shoes and a wedding ring. After speaking with her mother she phoned a brother in Harrisonburg, Virginia to arrange a short stay, and that day a friend named Bob, a truck driver, told the family she and a female companion had already left Kansas for South Carolina. Frankie never arrived and has had no contact with family since.

The identity of the traveling female friend remains unknown, and investigators have had few solid leads owing to Frankie’s transient lifestyle. Her children in South Carolina and Kansas have not heard from her since May 14, 1989. Does anyone have information about Frankie’s travels in 1989 or recall her being seen after May 14?