Retha Hiers, 43, was last seen in Largo, Florida, on December 28, 1982, when she left home to buy laundry detergent and never returned. She lived with her husband and six children at the Breakers Apartments on Campbell Lane. In March 1983 her car, a white 1976 Ford Elite, was recovered abandoned in Clearwater, but no further trace of her has been found.

In the months before her disappearance Hiers was involved in a turbulent personal situation. She had a relationship with Cleveland Hill Jr., a married asphalt contractor and former minister who was a family friend. Hiers reportedly told her husband she had left him for Hill in a letter written after she vanished. Hill’s name has surfaced repeatedly in connection with Hiers and with two other missing women said to have ties to him; he denied involvement and was never charged. An excavation at a Largo property in 2022 based on tips did not uncover evidence or remains.

What can readers add about Hiers’ last day, the recovered Ford Elite, or anyone who might have seen her in late December 1982?