Babette Alberti was 23 when she was last definitively seen in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in autumn 1983; reports list the date as either October 5 or October 20, 1983. On that day she visited a friend jailed in Hahnville, a meeting confirmed by visitor logs and the friend; after that visit she vanished. She lived on Lena Drive in Chalmette at the time.

Babette was petite, about 4 feet 11 inches to 5 feet 1 inch and 95 to 105 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She had several tattoos — including a butterfly on the right side of her abdomen, a unicorn on her right buttock and a Sagittarius symbol on her hip — plus scars from an appendectomy and past injuries. She sometimes used aliases such as Babette Nadine Arnelur Phillips and was known to spend time in New Orleans French Quarter seeking bar work. There are suggestions she may have been involved with drugs and sex work and that she might have planned to go to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, after she was last seen.

What information does anyone have about Babette’s movements in October 1983 or about sightings in the Bay St. Louis area?