Michelle Meredith Mulcahy, 17, of Fort Lauderdale, was last seen on July 7, 1979. She left a friend’s home in Pompano Beach reportedly headed to a dance contest at the Candy Store Lounge on Fort Lauderdale Beach but never arrived. Witnesses said she left with an unidentified white man and woman in a black 1978 or 1979 Cadillac.

At disappearance she was described as 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches, about 115 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes and a dime-sized surgical scar under her left breast. She left behind all personal belongings, including clothes, makeup and the car she had recently bought, and detectives suspect foul play. She had been involved with drugs and was in a relationship with a convicted drug smuggler who disappeared about the same time and is believed to have possibly fled to South America.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is still seeking information that could help resolve this unsolved case. Did anyone in the Fort Lauderdale or Pompano Beach area remember Michelle, the black Cadillac or the people she left with in July 1979?