Rebecca Pauline Gary, known as Becky, was a 32-year-old single mother living in Baton Rouge in 1988 who vanished after late December of that year. The last confirmed contact came December 27, 1988, when she called her sister Joyce to say things in Baton Rouge weren’t working out and that she wanted to move back to Shreveport. Her 12-year-old daughter Jamie was sent to Shreveport for the holidays in mid-December and never saw her mother again.

When the apartment manager checked Becky’s Baton Rouge unit in early January because the rent was overdue, the scene suggested a hasty, interrupted departure: lights and a coffee maker left on, a bathtub filled with water, two cups on the bar, a packed suitcase on the bed with family photos around it, and a torn-up autographed photograph of Governor Edwin Edwards on the counter. Becky had told family she kept a large manila envelope under her bed containing answers if anything happened to her; that envelope was missing. Her purse, keys, and car were left behind.

The family reports a slow official response and said police did not promptly process the apartment; Becky was not officially reported missing until January 20, 1989.

Did anyone in Baton Rouge or Shreveport at the time remember seeing Becky or her car between late December 1988 and mid-January 1989?