Mary Everette Harrison was 31 when she vanished from her Shell Road home in Hampton, Virginia. She was last seen by her four daughters on the evening of October 6, 1982; the next morning she was gone. Her purse was left at the house and she did not own a vehicle. Brand-new clothing with price tags still attached was later found hanging in her closet.

Harrison was separated but not divorced from the children’s father, who was not living in the home; he died in a fire in 1986. The four girls, then aged six to twelve, were shuffled among relatives for two years before settling with their maternal aunt. There has been no activity on Harrison’s Social Security number, driver’s license, or credit accounts since October 1982.

Her sister has said she may have left to escape single motherhood, while the daughters believe she is no longer alive. Investigators consider the disappearance suspicious. Does anyone who lived in Hampton in 1982 or knew the family have information that could help resolve what happened to Mary Everette Harrison?