Dawn Marie Miller was 22 when she was last seen on October 23, 1992. At that time she had been staying with her boyfriend, Greg Emel, at the Academy Apartments in Bellefonte while in a dispute with her mother. Witnesses say she left the complex in a brown 1982 Datsun 210 station wagon with Emel and his nephew, reportedly headed to Williamsport so Dawn could pick up belongings.

Family described Dawn as trusting and close to her siblings, and reported her missing after about a month of silence. Emel and his nephew told investigators they dropped her off in Williamsport and later explained scratches on their bodies as from retrieving a flat tire from a briar bush. Authorities say they believe Dawn was a homicide victim, but the initial case went cold until about 2008 when a Lycoming County detective, Kenneth Mains, began reinvestigating.

After Emel died by suicide, his nephew told police he had witnessed a murder and led investigators to a spot near Jacksonville Quarry. Cadaver dogs alerted there, but extensive digging produced no remains and the nephew stopped cooperating. No charges have been filed and Dawn’s disappearance remains open and unsolved. Does anyone have information about Dawn, her last known travels, or the people who were with her that day?