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Lori Ann Murchison-Dunbar was 24 when she vanished from Fort Smith, Arkansas, after a September 1, 1995 traffic arrest with her boyfriend, Jerry Cogan. She was released from the Sebastian County Jail on the morning of September 2, saying she planned to pick up her paycheck from the Oaks Lodge Nursing Home and then bail Cogan out. She phoned her mother that day to say she and Cogan were getting a room at the Continental Motel and that she would pick up her four-year-old daughter the next day; that call was the last time her mother spoke with her.

Witness reports place her near the Continental Motel at about 5:40 a.m. and later that afternoon at the motel office, where she allegedly asked for a room key.

Investigators later received tips suggesting an accidental drug overdose and that a companion disposed of her body; a man identified as a credible suspect was jailed in Oklahoma on unrelated charges but prosecutors reportedly could not charge abuse of a corpse because the statute of limitations had expired. The FBI also looked into allegations involving a former county prosecutor and an order to kill Lori, but a grand jury returned no indictments. Her body has never been found and no one has been charged. Does anyone have information about Lori’s last known movements or the Continental Motel area in 1995?