On February 28, 1977, 29-year-old legal secretary Loy Evitts disappeared during her lunch hour in Kansas City, Missouri. A new employee at a law firm, she drove her distinctive yellow 1970 MG from the Plaza Center Building parking garage to run errands on the Country Club Plaza, had her watch adjusted, bought coffee and an umbrella, and was last seen between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. When she failed to return, her supervisor called her husband at 6:00 p.m.; her car was later found back in its usual parking space with the newly purchased umbrella on the front seat but no sign of Loy.

Ten days later children found her purse under a bridge in a sparsely populated area of southeast Kansas City, near Unity Village, about 12 miles from where she was last seen. The purse contained credit cards and her husband’s checkbook. Authorities treated foul play as likely from the start; family and friends said it was out of character for Loy to vanish voluntarily. A man was arrested a few weeks after the disappearance but charges were dropped for lack of evidence. In 1984 her husband had her declared legally dead and never remarried. The Kansas City Police Department still lists her as a missing person and her case is the city’s oldest unsolved missing person case.

Does anyone have memories of Loy, sightings on the Plaza that afternoon, or information about activity near Unity Village in early 1977?