On the afternoon of May 23, 1993, 47-year-old Dorothy Pitcher and her young daughter left their Sunizona, Arizona, home on foot for the three-mile walk to the RV Park Store at Highway 191 and Highway 181 to buy cigarettes. They stopped at an older daughter’s house en route, reached the store, bought cigarettes and ice cream, and made a call from a payphone. Friends later drove by and saw the mother and daughter walking along the highway — the last confirmed sighting.

Search dogs picked up their scent at the store and followed it roughly a mile and a half toward home before the trail ended near the road, prompting investigators to suspect a vehicle may have picked them up. Dorothy’s purse, dentures, eyeglasses and other personal items remained at home. Investigators looked at several leads, Dorothy’s husband John Pitcher passed two polygraphs and was ruled out, and persons of interest have been named over the years, but no arrests were ever made.

Their disappearance remains an open criminal investigation and their whereabouts are unknown. If anyone knew Dorothy, her daughter, or saw that stretch of highway on May 23, 1993, please share what might help the case.