Jamie Michelle Fraley, 22, disappeared from her Gastonia, North Carolina, apartment in the late hours of April 8, 2008. She’d been sick with a severe stomach flu and had already visited the hospital twice that day. Around midnight she spoke with her mother about still feeling ill; at approximately 1:30 a.m. she told a friend someone was coming to take her back to the hospital and identified the person only as he. Her apartment was later found locked with her purse, keys, and identification left behind.

Two days after she was last heard from, a utility worker found her cell phone about three miles from her home; investigators believe it may have been thrown from a moving vehicle. Calls logged from the phone that night were redials and produced no leads. Attention focused on Ricky Simonds Sr., the father of Jamie’s incarcerated fiancé, who lived in the same complex, had given her a ride earlier that day, and had a prior manslaughter conviction; he declined a polygraph. Simonds later died under unusual circumstances, and a 2015 confession by another inmate was judged not credible. The case remains open and unresolved.

Did anyone in Gastonia know Jamie’s routines, the friend she called about the ride, or who she might have meant by he?