Beatrice Villela, 19, vanished on September 28, 1980, in San Antonio, Texas. She worked as a hairstylist at the Budget Beauty Salon and was scheduled to meet her boss and former boyfriend, Oscar Lozano, at a beauty school to pick up supplies before babysitting her niece and nephew; she never arrived for either commitment.

Villela had recently ended a turbulent relationship with Lozano. He had fired her and taken back expensive gifts after learning she was seeing another man, but shortly before she disappeared he rehired her, returned the gifts, and bought plane tickets for a hairstylists’ convention in Chicago that were never used. Her car was recovered more than a month later in an apartment complex parking space that appeared unrelated to her, and investigators developed no substantial leads.

Family members suspected foul play from the start because it was out of character for her to vanish without contact, and police also considered foul play a possibility. Lozano was questioned and declined to take a recorded polygraph when he was not permitted to film it. The case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the San Antonio area know Beatrice, her routines, or where she might have been headed that day?