Janis Kay Sanders was 24 when she vanished from Niles, Michigan, in the summer of 1975. Accounts place her working at Pete’s Patio Restaurant on the evening of Sunday, July 20, dressed in a rose-colored long-sleeved collared shirt with a black jumper-style dress, black pantyhose and white shoes; she had blue eyes, freckles and bushy reddish-auburn hair and was about five feet four inches and 115 pounds.

Witnesses said Janis had moved back in with her parents about a week before she disappeared after ending a relationship. Her ex-boyfriend was seen at the restaurant on July 20 and described by witnesses as highly agitated; he was reportedly seen following her when she left work and she was never seen again. No vehicle, luggage, travel plans or confirmed later sightings have been identified, and investigators have treated the disappearance as suspicious rather than a routine voluntary absence.

Her children provided DNA samples that were processed through the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification and entered into a national law-enforcement database to assist with comparisons to unidentified remains. Does anyone have information about Janis, her movements around July 20, 1975, or the people she associated with in Niles at that time?