Debra Ann Wilhite was 19 and a mother of two when she disappeared from Evansville, Indiana, on a rainy night, October 14, 1974. She lived in Gibson County with her husband, Jeffrey, and their daughters and had recently begun working as a waitress at the Windmill Restaurant near Highways 41 and 57. After finishing her shift she dropped the children at her mother’s house and was last seen leaving the restaurant in a green 1966 Ford Galaxie, wearing a blue knit sweater and bell-bottom blue jeans.

Staff and patrons reported a middle-aged man with a medium build and dark, medium-length hair who asked for a ride that evening; accounts differ on whether Debra knew him. The man said he had hitchhiked on a cattle truck from Indianapolis and was staying at a motel. Debra’s car, Indiana plate 26B2953, also disappeared and has never been recovered. Her husband reported the car missing two days later, believing she had taken it, because she had previously left for short periods without warning.

Rumors over the years included a tip about a nearby water-filled pit called The Duck Pond, which was drained without finding the car. Debra’s husband later died in a vehicle accident and the couple’s oldest daughter died of leukemia in 1979; the younger daughter was raised by her grandmother and has continued to seek answers. Does anyone remember seeing Debra, her green Galaxie, or the man from that night?