Agnes Banwell, 80, disappeared from Purcellville, Virginia, on the evening of July 2, 1994, five days after moving there from Queens, New York, to live with her son. She had been living with short-term memory loss and had wandered away three times in the five days she’d been in town; the first two times she was found, once by her son and once after asking a police officer for help. On the night she vanished she was seen buying a newspaper and a snack, and was last confirmed on foot at 8:00 p.m. walking past the local high school in the 300 block of East D Street.

At the time she was wearing a dark blue house dress with a white floral pattern, a pink sweater with scalloped edges, brown shoes, eyeglasses, and carrying a brown purse. A large search by Purcellville Police and Virginia State Police used land and air units and search dogs; the dogs tracked her scent along a rural road, over a bicycle path and onto another road before the trail went cold in a farming area. Investigators have said she may have been trying to return to New York, but her whereabouts remain unknown and the case is an active cold case with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

If anyone remembers seeing Agnes in Purcellville on July 2, 1994, or has information about her movements that evening, please come forward.