Michelle Jean Valadez, also known as Michelle Barnett, was 18 when she was last seen on May 30, 1994. She had recently moved to Palm Springs, California, from Ontario with her three-year-old son and the child’s 29-year-old father. Michelle called her family the day she went missing and said she planned to return home soon, but she never made that trip.

Two weeks after her disappearance, Michelle’s mother received an anonymous call warning that Michelle was in danger and needed help leaving Palm Springs. Nine months later the man Michelle had moved with killed one of his brothers; Michelle’s family believes her disappearance is connected to that crime and that she may have been killed between August and September 1994. She may have been driving a 1994 blue Ford Thunderbird or a black Chevrolet Camaro with a customized California plate.

The case remains unsolved and authorities are seeking information. Did anyone in Palm Springs or Ontario know Michelle, the people she lived with, or recall seeing either of those cars in mid-1994?