Wilda Jean Cross, 39, vanished from Sibley, Louisiana, after a last confirmed sighting at her Ponder Road home on the morning of March 23, 1992. She and her husband were separated but trying to reconcile; they ran a jewelry store in Bossier City. Wilda was a nationally and internationally ranked barefoot water skier, listed as second in the U.S. and fifth in the world in 1984.

She was scheduled to attend a therapy appointment in Shreveport that morning but never arrived. Her husband did not tell her family she was missing for three days and later suggested she might have left with another man. He also later said she called several nights after March 23 to say she planned to move to another state; that claim has not been verified. Wilda’s parents reported her missing in July 1992. The case grew cold, was later reopened by the Louisiana State Police, and Wilda was declared legally dead in 2006.

What information might help explain the three-day delay in notifying family or corroborate the husband’s unverified claim about the phone calls?