Elizabeth Ann Pfeifer, 20, of Katy, Texas, was last seen leaving her parents’ home on April 12, 1986, to attend a party about ten miles away with five others. Witnesses said she became extremely intoxicated and left the party around midnight with a man named James Wesley Hopgood, whom her friends did not know. Hopgood later admitted they went to his apartment in Houston and then drove back to Katy; he says he last saw Elizabeth at a gas station on North Mason Road where she got into a brown pickup truck driven by someone she appeared to know.

Elizabeth’s family did not report her missing for four weeks because she had previously left home temporarily without warning. Her purse, identification, and other personal belongings were left behind. Investigators came to suspect foul play as months and years went by with no contact. Hopgood refused a polygraph about the case and was later convicted of unrelated crimes. Elizabeth had documented struggles with drug and alcohol abuse and a tattoo of a red rose with the name Dave on her left shoulder.

The case remains unsolved and the Katy Police Department asks anyone with information to come forward. Does anyone have information about Elizabeth, the brown pickup truck, or who she might have known in Katy in April 1986?