Angela Gray Hamby, 20, left her Wilkesboro, North Carolina home on the morning of Friday, October 29, 1982, with errands to run before a planned shopping trip with her mother. She worked in data processing at a local bank, attended Wilkes Community College, and hoped to transfer to Appalachian State University. Angela was last seen wearing a cream-colored V-neck sweater under an orchid sweater, blue jeans, socks and sandals, and wearing a gold add-a-bead necklace and a new diamond and sapphire ring.

Her silver 1980 Mazda RX7 was found abandoned and unlocked behind Glenn’s Tastee Freeze the same day, parked near the dumpsters with a full tank of gas. Her pocketbook and driver’s license were inside, but her car keys and the money she had been carrying were missing. A witness reported seeing Angela at about 11:30 a.m. in the car near where it was later found, with a rough-looking blond man in the driver’s seat while Angela sat in the passenger seat and they appeared to be talking. Two persons of interest were later ruled out after being confirmed incarcerated at the time.

The disappearance is described as out of character and remains an active, unsolved case more than four decades later. Did anyone in the Wilkesboro area see Angela or recognize the man seen in the car that morning?