Gloria Jean Baird was 23 and a mother to a two-year-old when she vanished in Atlanta around December 31, 1969. She had been on approved leave from the U.S. Army, having enlisted only months earlier and served at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Ft. McClellan. She was reportedly last seen leaving a party with three unidentified men.

Shortly after she was last seen, Gloria’s Volkswagen Beetle was found abandoned on the side of a Georgia road. There were no signs of her near the vehicle, and no witnesses reported seeing a woman walking in the area. She was described as Caucasian, with light brown hair, blue eyes and a scar on the right side of her face under her chin.

The Army listed her as Absent Without Leave when she failed to return from leave. Family memories include an FBI involvement in 1970, but later inquiries by Gloria’s daughter to the Atlanta FBI office turned up no records of an investigation into her disappearance. The fate of Gloria Jean Baird remains unknown.

If anyone knew Gloria, the three men she left the party with, or remembers the abandoned Beetle, please share information that might help clarify what happened.