Arlene Day Abbas was 36 when she disappeared on January 6, 1989, after leaving a halfway house in Brooklyn, New York. She had been treated for schizophrenia and had been released from a New York City hospital to the halfway house shortly before she vanished. Arlene was last seen wearing traditional Muslim clothing and may have been having difficulty with her mental health at the time.

Originally from Indiana, Arlene moved to New Orleans as an adult, converted to Islam, and had three children with her husband. The couple divorced in the mid-1980s and Arlene relocated to New York, leaving the children with her ex-husband. Family members have suggested she might be institutionalized somewhere or otherwise unable to contact them. The NYPD continues to ask anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone knew Arlene, lived near the halfway house in Brooklyn in January 1989, or has information about her whereabouts, please share what you know.