Carolyn Elizabeth Lawson, 25, was abducted from her Jasper, Alabama, home in the pre-dawn hours of September 11, 1991. A woman claiming to be a hospital nurse summoned Lawson and her husband outside; as they approached their vehicle a masked man with a gun forced Lawson to tie up her husband, then drove off with her in her 1991 Ford Explorer. A ransom demand for $300,000 followed. The family left money where instructed; the ransom was picked up on September 13, but Lawson was never released.

Her Ford Explorer was found more than a week later in a wooded area of Winston County. Investigation identified two suspects, Jerry Bland and his distant cousin Karen McPherson. Bland died by suicide roughly three weeks after the abduction as law enforcement closed in; much of the ransom was found hidden in his attic. McPherson was arrested and later pleaded guilty to involvement, saying she last saw Lawson a day or two after the kidnapping and that Bland told her Lawson had escaped into remote woods. Despite searches of abandoned coal mines and numerous tips over the years, no trace of Lawson has been found; she was declared legally dead in 1993.

What leads or overlooked locations might still point to Carolyn Lawson’s whereabouts?