Kathaleen Elizabeth Folk-Hine, 51 and a mother of five, vanished from Parrish, Florida on January 15, 1972. Her husband, Gilbert Charles Hine, said he dropped her at the Manatee County Fairgrounds in Palmetto to help with a poultry exhibit, but no one at the fairgrounds reported seeing her that day. Kathaleen left behind her purse, prescription glasses and necessary medication; given her lung disorder and arthritis, those items suggest she would not have walked away on her own.

Her husband did not report her missing; her father and a daughter-in-law filed the missing-person report five days later. A daughter remembers receiving a phone call from Kathaleen on the day she disappeared, during which Kathaleen screamed and the line went dead. Signs of a struggle were later found at the home, including overturned furniture, and Kathaleen’s revolver was missing. Gilbert later took control of jointly owned property using documents said to bear Kathaleen’s signature. Authorities suspect foul play but no charges have been filed and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Parrish or Manatee County in 1972 see Kathaleen that day or have information about the household disturbance?