Virginia Grier Burton was 27 and living in Grantville, Georgia, when she disappeared in the late summer of 1967. She was described as a Black woman, five feet two inches tall, about 130 pounds, with a scar or keloid on her forehead. The last known sighting is an estimated date of August 1, 1967, when she left her mother’s home wearing a green, flowered bell-bottom pantsuit to pay bills. An acquaintance accompanied her on that errand; who that person was and the details of their plans remain unclear.

Her family last saw her when she left home and she never returned. The case remains unresolved and is now with the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office. Very few concrete facts are publicly known beyond her description, clothing and the general purpose of the outing.

Did anyone in the community remember seeing Virginia or that distinctive green, flowered pantsuit around early August 1967?