Sixteen-year-old Donna Jean Mezo vanished from Belleville, Illinois in the early hours of February 18, 1992. Visiting from Crocker, Missouri, she had been staying with family and planned to return home the next day. At about 1:30 a.m. she left her brother’s house to walk to a fast-food restaurant on East Monroe Street to meet her 20-year-old boyfriend, Jeffrie T. Mezo, but was last seen walking on East Monroe Street and never arrived. She left behind personal items including her purse and makeup.

Jeffrie was later found shot in a secluded area of South Side Park in Belleville about four months after Donna disappeared. A note indicated suicide but the gun was recovered from a nearby lake and authorities said the note contained no new information about Donna; the note’s full contents were not released. There were unconfirmed sightings of Donna in the Fenton, Missouri area that did not lead to her discovery. If anyone knew Donna’s movements that night or saw her in Belleville or Fenton in February 1992, please share information that might help her family.