Heather Teague was 23 when she vanished from Newburgh Beach in Henderson County, Kentucky on a summer afternoon in August 1995. An eyewitness across the Ohio River, using a telescope, reported seeing a man grab Heather by the hair at gunpoint and drag her into nearby woods. Searchers recovered a piece of Heather’s red plaid bathing suit at the scene.

Investigators focused early on local resident Marvin Marty Dill after a vehicle matching his red and white Ford Bronco was seen next to Heather’s car. A prior traffic stop that year had turned up guns, knives, rope, duct tape and rubber gloves in Dill’s vehicle. When police went to question him days after the disappearance, Dill sent his wife away and then died by suicide; searches of his property did not locate Heather. Dill’s wife later invoked the Fifth Amendment before a grand jury. Other leads included Christopher J. Below, who was in the area that day and left the same day Dill died, and authorities at one point considered the possibility the two men were connected. Dill’s body was exhumed in recent years for DNA testing, and the case remains open.

Heather’s mother, Sarah Teague, continues to press for answers. If anyone has information about Heather, her movements that August afternoon, or either man’s activities that day, please come forward.