Barbara Joy Gallagher was 31 when she was last seen sometime between September and mid-October 1988 in Azalea, Oregon. She lived with her boyfriend, Robert Douglas Barr, on Bull Run Road. Barbara coached the Roseburg Swim Team, worked as a lifeguard and for the Red Cross, and was studying corporate physical fitness at Umpqua Community College. Friends and family knew her as a devoted mother; she stopped making her regular birthday and Christmas calls to her son in the Midwest, and her sister filed a missing person report on February 7, 1989.

Investigators focused on her live-in boyfriend, Barr, who was described as having a history of violence. Barr later died by suicide in 2001 after the murder of his new wife; authorities said the same weapon was used in both that murder and his suicide. Barr was never charged in Barbara Gallagher’s disappearance. Her family and investigators believe she was a victim of foul play, but the case grew cold and was closed in 2004. Barbara was known as Barbi, had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a dove tattoo on her right shoulder blade.

If anyone knew Barbara, her routines in Azalea, or has information that could help explain her disappearance, please come forward.