Virginia Lynne Wood, known to family and friends as Ginni, was a 19-year-old Appalachian State University freshman on the Dean’s List when she vanished after a spring break trip in March 2007. A resident of Chocowinity studying accounting in Boone, she drove her black 2003 Nissan Sentra (North Carolina plate TTZ-6801) to Brownsville, Texas to visit a childhood friend, Kelly Gaskins. Virginia carried her birth certificate and social security card for a planned trip into Mexico and called her mother after arriving to confirm she had met up with Gaskins.

The last confirmed contact came on or around March 10, 2007, when Virginia called a friend and said she and Gaskins intended to travel to Cancun. After that call, all attempts by family to reach her went to voicemail and she never returned to campus. Virginia’s car has never been located.

Both Gaskins and Gaskins’s boyfriend, Ervin Braxton Williams, were wanted by law enforcement at the time Virginia disappeared; Williams had prior charges including arson, burglary and assault and was reportedly planning to go to Mexico. Authorities treated Gaskins as a fugitive for an extended period, delaying a missing person report for her until 2015. No resolution has been reported in this disappearance.

Did anyone in Texas, Mexico or along the route between North Carolina and Brownsville see Virginia’s black 2003 Nissan Sentra or have information about her plans in March 2007?