Barbara Jean Aleksivich, 24, disappeared from Bath, New York, on the evening of October 3, 1973. She was last seen leaving the local Elks Club at about 10:45 p.m., walking the two blocks toward her home in the 100 block of East William Street after attending the club with her husband. When her husband returned home later and found she was not there, he reported her missing.

At the time she vanished Barbara was described as a Caucasian woman with brown, shoulder-length hair and hazel eyes. She wore eyeglasses and was dressed in a white blouse, a blue and white plaid skirt, a green pullover sweater, and brown loafers. Foul play is strongly suspected, and the investigation has remained open and unsolved.

For many years a local man named Frederick C. Bush was considered a person of interest; he was later eliminated in 2020 when investigators identified a new person of interest, Richard W. Davis. Davis lived in Bath around 1973 to 1976 and had been linked posthumously by DNA to a 1974 murder in Montana; he also had prior reports in Bath of attempting to lure children. No direct evidence has connected Davis to Barbara’s disappearance, and no resolution has been announced.

If anyone who lived in Bath in 1973 or knew Barbara has information about her movements that night, please come forward.