Joanne Elaine Coughlin, 21, disappeared from the Youngstown area after an evening she told colleagues she would spend at the European Health Spa on Boardman-Canfield Road and then at her boyfriend’s home. She worked that day, December 27, 1974, at the local Jewish Community Center and was last seen by family at their Christmas celebration two days earlier. Her 1968 Ford Fairlane, license plate H4482G, also vanished.

A signature in Joanne’s name appears on the spa sign-in sheet, but a niece says the handwriting does not match and no witnesses have confirmed seeing her there. Soon after the disappearance someone tried to withdraw $800 from Joanne’s bank account at a Mahoning National Bank drive-through; the teller, tipped off by Joanne’s mother, stopped the woman, who left and was later identified but denied knowing Joanne’s whereabouts. Police investigated leads including a report of a woman being dragged from a car near quarries on Villa Marie Road; searches produced no evidence. Joanne was declared legally dead in 1985, but her disappearance remains unsolved.