Lillian LaWren Nance, 32, was last seen walking away from her mother’s home in Gastonia, North Carolina, in the late afternoon of June 20, 2001. She left the vicinity of the 1200 block of Sunshine Street with a male companion and said she was going to the store or to her home on Avon Street, where she lived with a friend. She was wearing a floral spaghetti strap shirt and dark blue denim shorts.

Her family reported her missing in August 2001 after she failed to return or make contact; unconfirmed sightings in Gastonia on July 2, 2001, and a later rumor of sightings in Atlanta prompted searches but produced no substantiated leads. Family members have said she may have been in an abusive relationship and noted she had been hospitalized days before she disappeared. Police say they suspect foul play and the case remains open; in 2014 she was declared legally dead so her family could settle life insurance.

Anyone with information about Lillian LaWren Nance, also known as Libby, or her movements in late June 2001 is asked to contact the Gastonia Police Department.