Cynthia Coon vanished during a short walk to school west of Ann Arbor on January 19, 1970. Cynthia, known to family as Cindy, left the home on Warrington Road about 7:30 a.m. for Forsythe Junior High School, a walk of roughly one mile that she preferred to taking the bus. She was last seen that morning and did not return home. Described as about five feet four inches, 110 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, she was reportedly a good student with no history of running away.

After weeks with no word, Cynthia contacted her parents by phone on April 1 and again on April 2, 1970, saying she did not know where she was; those calls were traced to the Detroit area but produced no confirmed leads. On May 5, 1970, her family received an extortion-type call; no ransom or recovery followed. The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office continues to list the case under its original file number, and her information was entered into national missing-person systems. No reliable physical evidence or confirmed sightings have emerged to establish what happened after she left home.

Did anyone in the Ann Arbor area in 1970 have contact with Cynthia or remember seeing a teenage girl matching her description on January 19?