Geneva Verneal Adams was 53 when she vanished from Festus, Missouri, after a night out on July 24, 1976. A mother of ten and active in her Pentecostal church, she left for an evening of dancing at the Artesian Lounge in nearby Herculaneum. Her son says she was in great spirits that night. She wore a blue tank top with a design and thin blue pants, and may have been wearing a ring with two green, heart-shaped stones.

At the bar she met a man named Jimmie Lee Mills; they danced and she appeared happy. Mills told police he drove her after closing, checked an after-hours place in East St. Louis that was closed, then dropped her at a donut shop on Highway 61 in Crystal City at about 4:00 a.m. Geneva never returned home and was reported missing. Foul play is suspected. Mills had prior sexual-offense convictions and later was connected to another disappearance; decades later investigators exhumed a Jane Doe found in Washington Park, Illinois, for DNA comparison after a 2018 tip.

Does anyone have recollections of Geneva that could help fill gaps in the early morning timeline?