Donna Christine O’Banion, 25, disappeared after finishing a shift as a waitress at the Southern Comfort lounge on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge in the early hours of October 23, 1985. She left work at about 2:00 a.m. intending to return to a residence in the 5900 block of Stumberg Lane where she was reportedly living with her mother, but she never arrived home and was reported missing that day.

At the time she vanished Donna was described as a white female with brown hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 125 pounds. She had two distinctive tattoos: an eagle on her shoulder blade and a sun with a cloud and lightning bolt on her upper right arm. She was last seen wearing a cut-off tank top, jeans, and sandals.

Donna was married to Kenneth O’Banion and they had a daughter; friends later said the couple may have been estranged and Kenneth filed for legal separation two weeks after Donna’s disappearance. No witnesses have come forward about what happened after she left work, and the Baton Rouge Police Department has entered her information into national missing-person databases. If anyone knew Donna, where she worked or socialized, or has information about that night, please share what is known.