Rita Michele Maxwell was 26 and living in Charlotte, North Carolina, when she was last seen on March 1, 1992. She left her Dundeen Street home that day saying she was going to visit someone, wearing a multicolored blouse, black pants, and white tennis shoes, and did not contact family afterward. Her relatives reported her missing on March 17 after she failed to stay in her usual touch with them.

Investigators noted Rita’s involvement with crack cocaine and that she frequented known drug houses. A friend, Devonne Dubose, disappeared under similar circumstances that same month; police considered a possible connection between the two cases. In later years information surfaced suggesting both women may have been killed and their bodies left in a vacant house in Charlotte. Serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, who confessed to multiple Charlotte-area murders in 1994, never confessed to Rita and was not charged in her disappearance, but authorities still consider him a possible link.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department lists her as an endangered missing person and foul play is suspected. Does anyone who knew Rita or frequented Dundeen Street in early 1992 have information that could help explain what happened to her?