Seventeen-year-old Lorraine Rea Herbster, known as Lori, disappeared on a Friday afternoon in early March 1979 after finishing a shift as a laboratory technician at Microcircuit Engineering Corporation in Mount Holly, New Jersey. A coworker drove her to the entrance of her Westampton Township housing development; she walked the familiar six blocks toward her home on Whitlow Drive and was last seen by a witness in the neighborhood at about 5:15 p.m. She wore a white coat sweater with a brown and beige design, a blouse, blue jeans, knee-high socks, brown hiking boots, and carried a reddish-brown suede shoulder bag; the bag was later found abandoned in her family’s front yard. Inside the house her laid-out clothes were untouched and two uncashed paychecks remained.

Her parents, Terry and Betty Herbster, reported her missing at 9:00 a.m. the next day. The coworker who gave her a ride was questioned and passed a polygraph; police canvassed the area and distributed flyers but no conclusive leads developed. Rumors about a local construction site disposal have circulated but were never substantiated.

Does anyone who lived in Westampton in 1979 remember seeing Lori that evening or have information that could help resolve what happened to her?