Peggy Reaves Mock was 37 when she disappeared after a night out in Gadsden, Alabama, on Christmas night, December 25, 1992. She spent part of the holiday with her mother in Boaz, visited the Chestnut Station and later the Warehouse Lounge with friends, and was last seen about midnight leaving the lounge. According to her mother Naomi Reeves, she would not have left on her own.

In March 1993 Peggy’s purse with identification and some medication, plus her boots and some undergarments, were recovered at the burned-out Mountaintop Club in nearby Rainbow City; items were found near a stagnant, debris-filled pool that was subsequently drained with no further evidence recovered. In May 1993 her dark blue 1983 Toyota Celica turned up backed into a parking space at Forest River Apartments on George Wallace Drive; the car appeared to have been there for months and had been wiped clean of fingerprints.

A woman later sent a letter claiming Peggy went to Texas in the trunk of a car; that woman was murdered in November 1994 and two men were convicted in her killing, but investigators have not established a link between that murder and Peggy’s disappearance. The Boaz Police Department treats the case as a possible homicide.