Ann Marie Shaw, 27, vanished from Manassas, Virginia, after being last seen on December 3, 1995. She was a Filipino American mother of two who sometimes used Walter Thomas Godbey’s surname; Godbey was the children’s father and had been ordered to pay child support earlier that year. After her disappearance Godbey told others she had dropped the children at his home and gone to the Philippines to visit her mother, but Ann Marie did not have a passport and her sister said their mother had died years earlier.

Years later, following Godbey’s arrest in an unrelated November 2001 murder, Ann Marie’s sister filed a missing person’s report. Investigators found a hidden box in Godbey’s home containing Ann Marie’s birth certificate, Social Security card, driver’s license and other personal items. Godbey’s then-wife told investigators he had confessed to killing Ann Marie, showed her the body, and said the torso had been dismembered and buried in a Fairfax wooded area; searches turned up no remains. In June 2010 Godbey pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection with Ann Marie’s 1995 death and received a 10-year sentence; her body has never been recovered.

Did anyone in Manassas or Fairfax who knew Ann Marie notice anyone acting suspiciously around December 1995?