Jane Hannah Rowell Clement was 22 when she disappeared from her Sorrel Avenue home in Baton Rouge in early April 1963, shortly after Easter. A budding writer and former college actress, she had recently separated from her husband, Wilton Clement, after a physical altercation that left her hospitalized for severe bruising. She lived there with her two young children.

According to family accounts, Hannah asked her estranged husband to pick up the children so she could attend a job interview; Wilton later said he tried to reach her and received no answer. A week later a neighbor alerted Hannah’s brother Wylie in New Orleans; he broke into the locked house and found mildewed laundry, untouched makeup and personal items, and the clothes she had worn for Easter along with a pink bedspread missing. Wilton suggested she had gone to Hollywood, a claim the family disputes. A cousin believed she might have been buried under a concrete slab at a local business built around that time.

The disappearance remains unsolved and unresolved for the family. Did anyone in Baton Rouge in 1963 see Hannah after that early April day or know about the construction mentioned by her cousin?