Arrilla Webb-Vaul, 23, vanished in March 1979 after pulling off the Jimmie Davis Bridge into Bossier Parish when a tire on her car was punctured. Witnesses reported a white truck driven by an unidentified white man pulled in behind her vehicle; later that night her husband found the car abandoned with her personal belongings inside and no sign of Arrilla.

Investigators at first considered that she might have left voluntarily; family said she had been distressed and had written her mother a note asking to be removed from the will and directing that her car go to her mother if anything happened to her. Friends and relatives said they could not believe she would willingly walk away from her life, and foul play became a growing concern as days passed without contact.

A month after Arrilla vanished, 18-year-old Ladoisha Dodie Gay disappeared from the same Eastgate Shopping Center; her car was also found with a punctured tire and her remains were recovered six weeks later. Authorities later identified truck driver James Edward Wood as a possible suspect in both cases, but no charges in Arrilla’s disappearance were filed. The case remains unresolved.

If anyone knew Arrilla, saw her car that night, or has information about the white truck or its driver, please share what is known.