Stacey Lynn Balas, 25, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, was last seen at about 1:00 a.m. on November 26, 1996, closing the Subway in Fairview Park with her manager. She never made it home and missed her next shift at 11:30 a.m. Her blue 1995 Nissan Pathfinder was found that same day in the Cleveland Motel parking lot, with her purse inside but no sign of Stacey. Her credit card was used three times in Brooklyn and Cleveland in the days after she disappeared.

Investigators quickly focused on the manager, Larry Wade, who was the last person known to have seen her and later became a prime suspect. Three months after Stacey vanished he was convicted of raping another woman. In November 2005 Wade confessed to strangling Stacey in the Subway kitchen after she rejected his advances and disposing of her body in a trash bin. In May 2006 he pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping and received a sentence of twenty years to life. Stacey’s body has never been recovered; authorities believe her remains are likely in a landfill.

Did anyone who knew Stacey or worked at that Subway back then notice anything unusual around closing time on November 26, 1996?