Kristina Ann Perkins, known as Kris or Kristi, was 21 when she disappeared from her Phoenix apartment on the evening of September 10, 1975. She had returned from a dinner date with her fiancé, who escorted her to the 1900 block of West Aster around 10:30 p.m. and watched her go inside. She flashed the porch light as planned to signal she was safe; that was the last confirmed contact.

Kristina worked as a dental assistant. She was described as a White female with brown hair and brown eyes, with a one-and-a-half-inch scar on the top of her left wrist and a wire dental retainer on her lower jaw. On September 17, 1975, her unoccupied 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass, yellow and green, was found abandoned in a desert area near North 51st Avenue and West Bell Road; her purse was missing and there was no sign of Kristina. Foul play is suspected.

Kristina’s ex-husband later told her sister Laura that Kristina was dead and that he would say she died of cancer if asked; investigators were never able to definitively link him to the disappearance and he has since died. The case remains active with the Phoenix Police Department. Did anyone in Phoenix in 1975 see Kristina’s Cutlass or notice her in the days after September 10?