Lisa Stasi was 19 and staying at a women’s shelter after leaving her marriage when she and her 4-month-old daughter Tiffany disappeared from Overland Park, Kansas, on January 9, 1985. A man identified as John Edward Robinson had been posing as someone who helped single mothers and arranged for Lisa and Tiffany to stay at the Rodeway Inn. He reportedly got Lisa to sign blank documents that he later used to forge adoption papers.

Lisa made a distressed phone call to her mother-in-law saying she was being forced to sign papers and feared for her daughter’s custody; that call was the last contact anyone had with her. Tiffany was given to Robinson’s brother and raised as Heather Robinson, only learning about her adoption after Robinson’s arrest in 2000. Robinson was later convicted of Lisa’s murder, but Lisa’s remains have never been found.