Denise Newsom Porch, 21, vanished from the Yorktown Apartments on Tyvola Road in Charlotte on the afternoon of July 31, 1975. She was the resident manager and left a note for her husband, Dean, saying she was showing a vacant unit to a potential renter. Witnesses reported seeing her around 3:11 p.m. showing a man around the property. Her blue Camaro was parked at home that evening, and the apartment had the television and air conditioning running; her purse and identification were left on the dining room table.

Investigators found no signs of a struggle, but the master keys to the vacant apartments and a logbook of units to be shown were missing. The case produced few answers; her family had her declared legally dead in 1982. In the mid-1980s Larry Gene Bell, who lived about 300 yards from Yorktown in 1975 and was later convicted of other murders, was considered a prime suspect but was never charged in Porch’s disappearance. Her husband, who died in 2011, believed she had been abducted.

Denise’s body has never been found and foul play is widely suspected. Did anyone who lived near Tyvola Road in 1975 or who knew Denise recall that afternoon or the person she was said to be showing around the complex?