Rebecca Kellison was 21 and two days from graduating from the Lane Beauty Academy when she left her sister’s home near East Colfax Avenue and Madison Street on the morning of June 19, 1976. Without a car, it’s believed she may have been hitchhiking back to Aurora to study for a final exam; her family said she would not have run away, noting her close ties and her father’s poor health.

For more than a year there were no major leads. In December 1977, a farmer plowing a field in rural Adams County uncovered several items of clothing. Investigators recovered Rebecca’s blue shoulder purse containing her Armed Forces Dependent Identification Card, plus blue jeans, a brown suede jacket, a short-sleeve knit shirt, multicolored bikini-style underwear, and black boots. Her remains were not found, and the field has since been paved over and is now an airport runway.

The disappearance remains unsolved. Does anyone with memories of the Aurora or Adams County area in 1976–77 have information that could help explain what happened to Becky?