Dorothy Fay Johnson was 36 when she was last seen on March 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the 4000 block of West Monroe in Chicago, about a half-mile north of Interstate 290 and a couple of blocks west of Garfield Park. After that day no one reported hearing from or seeing her again.

Also known to use the aliases Denise Kyles and Dorothy Kyles, she was a mother. At the time she went missing she was described as a Black woman with black hair and gray eyes, 5 feet 5 inches tall, about 130 pounds, with varicose veins in her lower legs, pierced ears, and missing all her teeth except one on the right side of her lower jaw. It is not publicly known what she was wearing when last seen.