Dora Ruth Smith was 47 when she disappeared from her home on the 400 block of Weakly Street in Florence, Alabama, during the night of April 24, 1977. Her husband was the last person to report seeing her and said she left wearing only a nightgown and got into a lime green Ford LTD. Personal items including her purse, identification, house key and dentures were left behind, which family members found unusual but initially not alarming because she sometimes took short, unannounced trips.

Two weeks later her son reported her missing after no contact. Investigators used cadaver dogs and dug near a backyard shed after the 2003 discovery; the dogs alerted but excavations turned up no remains. The letter has since been lost and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Dora, lived on Weakly Street in the 1970s, or remembers a lime green Ford LTD in Florence in April 1977, can you share what you remember?