Claudia Tinsley, 24, was last seen on a Sunday evening in early September 1996 outside her home on Baker Street in Toledo, Ohio. At about 8:15 p.m. she was observed getting into a blue Chevrolet sedan driven by a white male. Tinsley asked her mother to write down the vehicle’s license plate number before she left; that number led investigators to a man named James Worley.

Worley told police he picked Tinsley up near Summit and Cherry streets intending a sexual encounter, drove around with her, stopped at her mother’s house, and then dropped her at an undisclosed location. At the time there was insufficient evidence to tie him to her disappearance. Worley had a prior abduction conviction from 1990; years later he was convicted in an unrelated abduction and murder, and a subsequent search of his property for evidence in Tinsley’s case produced no new leads.

Foul play is strongly suspected. Several other local women, some involved in sex work, were murdered or went missing around the same time; a serial killer later confessed to some of those crimes but a connection to Tinsley has not been established. Does anyone have information about Tinsley, the blue Chevrolet, or sightings in Toledo that night?