Carla Corley was 14 and living with her mother in the Eastwood public housing project on Airport Highway in Birmingham when she vanished the night of August 12, 1980. Her mother woke about 4:30 a.m. and found the apartment’s doors wide open and the living room in disarray. Chairs were pushed back, a soda bottle overturned, Carla’s belt was outside the front door, and her new sandals were by the couch. All of her personal belongings and any money were left behind, and she did not have the medication she needed to control epileptic seizures.

Family members say Carla had been abducted and sexually assaulted near Lake Purdy about a month before she disappeared, and the same men allegedly came to the apartment a week before the abduction but were not allowed inside. Authorities have treated the disappearance as a non-family abduction with foul play suspected. Investigators followed tips over the years, conducted searches including one in 2005, and received a claim from someone who later recanted. Carla was declared legally dead several years after she vanished, but her fate remains unresolved.

If anyone knew Carla, her routines, or the people in Eastwood in 1980, can you share information that might help explain what happened?