Deborah Taylor was 42 when she moved from New York to Virginia Beach with her young granddaughter in the late summer of 1994, hoping to leave a long-term, secret relationship behind. Her boyfriend, 39-year-old Richard Ablamsky, continued to visit on weekends and in early September told her he was getting a divorce and being transferred to the Washington D.C. area. On September 3 they left Virginia Beach for Fairfax; on September 9 they checked into a Marriott Residence Inn in Tysons Corner. Ablamsky bought a gun and the pair were reportedly seen at a firing range. Taylor’s last known contact was a September 10 phone call to her mother mentioning the range visit.

After that she vanished. When police entered the hotel room on September 17 they found walls and a mattress covered in blood and bedclothes missing; blood was also found inside and in the trunk of Ablamsky’s car. Ablamsky returned to New Jersey, made threatening remarks, set his former boss’s house on fire on September 16, and died by suicide that day. Investigators suspect Ablamsky killed Taylor, but her body has never been recovered and she remains missing.

Did anyone in the Tysons Corner area or who knew Deborah or Richard see them between September 3 and September 17?