Eleven-year-old Bethany Markowski, described as having brown hair and blue eyes, disappeared on Sunday, March 4, 2001, the day she was due to return to her mother’s care after court-ordered visitation with her father. Her father, Larry Markowski, said he last saw her in the parking lot of the Old Hickory Shopping Mall in Jackson, Tennessee, where he waited in the car while she went inside. Mall security footage shows no evidence of Bethany entering the building, and a witness placed Larry alone at a gas station about 25 miles away around 2:00 p.m., saying he had just dropped off his daughter; Larry gave a different arrival time for the mall.

The weekend’s timeline is complicated: Bethany’s aunt dropped her with her father on March 2, they reportedly traveled to Little Rock, Arkansas, where the last confirmed sighting not by her father occurred on March 3, and Bethany spoke by phone to her sister on the morning of March 4 with the call pinging a tower near Natchez Trace State Park. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation joined the case within days.

The case remains open and Bethany is listed as an endangered missing person. No arrests have been made and her father has denied involvement. If anyone saw Bethany around March 3–4, 2001, or remembers a woman and girl matching these reports, can you share what you know?.