Kay Ilene Collins was 33 when she vanished in the winter of 1978. A mother of three, she was living in Wichita, Kansas, with her two young daughters, Robyn and Jodie, and her infant son, Michael, and was in the middle of a divorce and custody dispute with her estranged husband, who lived in Arkansas. Reports place her last known date of disappearance as December 19, 1978, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, Baxter County. She was described as 5 feet tall, about 100 pounds, with black hair and blue eyes.

Accounts of Kay’s final movements conflict. One version has the ex-husband saying he drove her to Memphis because she wanted to fly out, but friends in Memphis said they never heard from her. Other leads suggest possible sightings in Bald Knob or Little Rock and uncertainty about whether her last confirmed location was in Kansas or Arkansas. A Kansas judge declared her legally deceased in 1987, though no remains were found.

The Arkansas State Police later reopened the matter as a homicide investigation and have searched property once owned by the ex-husband; the current owner, Kay’s son, has allowed searches including use of cadaver dogs around the house foundation and nearby ravines. What details about Kay’s last confirmed whereabouts might someone in Arkansas or Kansas still be able to add?