Darlene Ellen Conklin was 21 when she vanished from the Monsey, New York, home she shared with her boyfriend in April 1981. Reports vary on the exact date. At the time she was described as a Caucasian woman, 5 feet 8 inches, long brown hair, green eyes, 100 to 120 pounds, with tattoos reading LOVE on one hand and TERRY on the other (reports differ that the latter may have been altered to HATE or read as JERRY). She was last seen wearing blue jeans and may have had scars on her wrists.

Her boyfriend, Stephen Szanyi, told police she sometimes left on her own; her mother filed a missing person report later that year after Darlene stopped making her regular contacts. The case saw little activity until 2010, when a tip prompted Ramapo police to reopen it as an unknown-death investigation. Investigators learned that officers from an unidentified police agency had at one time shown Whalen’s Moving and Storage employees a Polaroid of a wrapped deceased woman found in a moving blanket from that company. Employees thought the woman could resemble Darlene, but the agency that held the photo and the photo’s current whereabouts are unknown.

The investigation remains open. Does anyone have information about that Polaroid, the unnamed agency, or Darlene’s movements in Monsey or Haverstraw in 1981?