Patricia Patty DePunte was 32 when she vanished in the early hours of March 18, 1990, after celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at the Irish Pub on St. James Place in Atlantic City. Witnesses said she’d been drinking heavily that night and left the pub between 2:00 and 3:30 a.m. in the company of a man she reportedly met there. Some accounts say she argued with two other women while with him.

The man, later identified and described as married, told investigators he dropped Patricia off near her apartment at the corner of Mt. Vernon and Pacific Avenues around 4:00 a.m. His car was impounded and processed for forensic evidence. Patricia was last seen wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and high-heeled shoes; she stood about four feet eleven inches and weighed around 95 pounds.

She worked as a hairdresser at Jean’s Beauty Salon, grew up in Pleasantville and was a Pleasantville High School graduate. The New Jersey State Police and Atlantic City Police Department have kept the case open but so far no definitive answers have emerged.

If anyone was in that area of Atlantic City that night or remembers Patricia or the man she left with, can you share what you know?