Linda Crites, 37, was last heard from on the evening of November 23, 1983, while at home in Jackson, Missouri. She spoke by telephone with her eldest son and made plans to visit him the next morning for Thanksgiving. Linda never arrived for the holiday, and family members did not report her missing until about a week later; that delay has been attributed to family discord.

At the time she vanished Linda was separating from her husband but they still lived in the same house. He told investigators they argued about the pending divorce around midnight on the night she disappeared; he said Linda went into their bedroom and closed the door, and that the door was still closed when he left the next morning to spend Thanksgiving with his parents. The husband initially cooperated with police but later retained an attorney after learning he was considered a person of interest and stopped talking to investigators.

Authorities have said they suspect foul play and have treated the case as a potential homicide, but no definitive evidence has been found linking the husband or anyone else to Linda’s disappearance. With the late report, no witnesses beyond the husband’s account, and an absence of physical evidence, the case remains unsolved. Does anyone have memories of Linda, the neighborhood, or that Thanksgiving week in Jackson that could help fill gaps in the timeline?