Tinze Lucinda Huels was 17 and living in Tampa when she was last seen on October 27, 1984. She left home that day to go to a laundromat; her car was later found abandoned in the Char-Pal Lounge parking lot with clean, folded laundry inside but without her keys. Two weeks later her purse turned up in the men’s restroom at a campground in Busch Gardens containing her cash, driver’s license, and marriage certificate.

Tinze was married and the mother of two young children; her family says she would not have left them, especially while planning her son’s second birthday. Investigators looked into possible links to serial killer Bobby Joe Long, who was active nearby, but Long denied involvement. In 1992 a woman claimed to be Tinze but blood testing showed she was an imposter. Divers and other search efforts have turned up nothing conclusive.

The disappearance remains unsolved and authorities suspect foul play. Does anyone who knew Tinze or was in the Tampa area in late October 1984 have information to share?