Teresa Faye Hammon was 18 when she was last seen on May 8, 1981, in Sacramento, California. At the time she lived with her boyfriend, Cliff Thompson, and his mother. After an argument with Thompson she left their home and never returned; she left behind all of her personal belongings, including her car, and did not show up for an early shift at Burger King the next morning.

The day after Teresa disappeared, items from her person were recovered in a dumpster behind a Payless ShoeSource near the restaurant: clothing, her purse, makeup and some identification, with some of the items reportedly partially burned. Additional belongings were found two days later in a different dumpster. The case was initially classified as a runaway but was later reclassified as the possibility of foul play emerged. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Sacramento in 1981 see Teresa, her car, or notice activity around those dumpsters that could help investigators?