Rebecca Ann Crist, 25, vanished from her West Beverley Street apartment in Staunton, Virginia, on May 3, 1988. That afternoon she told her sister she would be gone only a few minutes and asked her to watch Rebecca’s two-year-old son; she was last seen walking west on West Beverley Street wearing a gray jacket, pink blouse and blue jeans. Her wallet was left at home and she had paid a month’s rent in advance. A silent phone call to the apartment around midnight the night she disappeared added to family concern. Rebecca was due in court the next day for a paternity hearing, and there was unconfirmed information she may have been up to three months pregnant.

Investigators developed few leads. In 1991 a local handyman wrote the family claiming he had accidentally killed Rebecca and disposed of her body in a landfill; he is a suspect but that confession could not be verified. Around the same period a former neighbor, Raymond Fauber, later found murdered, prompted brief attention, but authorities do not believe the cases are connected. The disappearance remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Rebecca, her routines, or saw her on West Beverley Street on May 3, 1988, please share what might help the family find answers.