Mary Jo Burnett, known to some as Joe, was 16 when she disappeared from her home in Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, in the summer of 1984. The exact date she left is uncertain; her absence was originally classified as an endangered runaway and her family did not file an official missing person report until 1989, delaying a formal investigation.

Investigators later established Mary was in Atlanta in August 1985 and that she had been arrested at some point during the period after she left Rockford, though details of that arrest are not public. After Atlanta the trail grows thin: tips placed her possibly in Texas or Florida and suggested she may have been with a male companion, but none of those leads produced a confirmed location.

Mary was described as white, brown hair, hazel or blue eyes, between 4 feet 11 inches and 5 feet 4 inches, about 90 pounds, with scars on her left calf and left knee, somewhat crooked teeth and a protruding right upper central incisor; she may wear eyeglasses. The Coosa County Sheriff’s Office still lists her as missing.

Did anyone in the Rockford, Atlanta, Texas or Florida areas have contact with Mary or know whom she might have been traveling with?