Peggy Dianovsky was 28 and a mother of three when she was last seen at her Schaumburg, Illinois home. At the time she disappeared she and her husband, Robert Dianovsky Sr., were in the middle of a contentious divorce and custody fight; both accused the other of infidelity. Her family says leaving was uncharacteristic — Peggy’s yellow Chevrolet Nova was left behind and she never collected her final paycheck from Dominick’s. Robert told police she had left on her own with a bag of clothes, but he later admitted striking her hard enough to cause bleeding and said this produced a stain found at the top of the household staircase; the blood spatter was not collected for analysis then.

Years later the Dianovskys’ three sons, as adults, recorded conversations with their father containing suspicious remarks about Peggy and reported they had witnessed him abusing and threatening their mother, with one son saying he had seen her killed; the sons said some memories surfaced during therapy. A friend testified that Robert once asked him for a gun to get rid of Peggy. Robert was charged in 2003; a judge acquitted him in November 2004, finding the evidence insufficient to prove he was responsible. Peggy’s body has never been found and the case remains unresolved.

Did anyone in Schaumburg or the surrounding area know Peggy or her family and notice anything unusual around the time she disappeared?