Patricia Ann Adkins, known as Patti, was 29 when she vanished after a late-night shift at the Honda of America plant in Marysville, Ohio. On June 29, 2001 she clocked out just after midnight in her all-white Honda uniform and steel-toed tennis shoes. She left her car at home and had ridden to work with a friend that day; she was due to pick up her seven-year-old daughter and had been planning a week-long trip to Canada with a man she was seeing.

Her family reported her missing on July 8, 2001 after she failed to collect her daughter. Investigation uncovered a secret relationship with a married co-worker who denied the relationship and any travel plans. He reportedly failed a polygraph, quit his job soon after Patti’s disappearance, and authorities later found items at his home that Patti had said she gave him. Patti also had withdrawn large sums of money and transferred assets to provide him funds, according to what she told friends and family. Financial and personal accounts show no activity after the day she vanished, and foul play is suspected.

Patricia Adkins was declared legally dead in 2006. The Union County Sheriff’s Office continues to treat her disappearance as an unsolved cold case and seeks anyone with information. Did anyone who knew Patti or worked at the Marysville plant in 2001 see anything that might help explain what happened to her?