Rene Combs disappeared from her Grove City, Ohio home on August 4, 1991, after saying she was going to visit a cousin and to finalize family reunion plans. Her husband Derek reported her missing when she missed work the next day. Three days later her black GMC Jimmy was found unlocked in the back of an apartment complex parking lot; its interior showed signs someone had tried to clean it. On August 12, 1991, her nude body was found concealed under brush in a wooded area off Holt Road. She had suffered strangulation and a blunt force head injury, a ring appeared to have been forcibly removed from her finger, and a red ice scraper at the scene was traced to her vehicle.

Family members described Rene as active in community and school activities. Two men connected to the case were David Skeaton, who led police to the body after claiming a vision, and Anthony West, who admitted pawning Rene’s diamond ring and using her bank cards but said she had given them to him; both reportedly passed lie detector tests. Skeaton was later murdered in an unrelated incident. The case remains unsolved and open.

Anyone with information about Rene, her truck, the red ice scraper, the ring, or movements in Grove City in August 1991 is asked to come forward.