Hester Lee Chandler, 60, vanished from Modesto, California, on September 12, 1974, after withdrawing nearly $9,000 from her bank account. Her car was later found parked outside her home with cardboard boxes of her clothing inside. At the house, credit cards and identification were left behind, some cards partially burned, and her house keys were on the living room floor.

Chandler worked at Tri/Valley Growers. Authorities long suspected coworker James Toliver, a forklift driver who was later linked to the disappearances of other women and to the 1980 killing of Florence Richina; Toliver died of a heart attack in 1980 while fleeing the Richina crime scene. Chandler’s disappearance is classified as a missing person case under suspicious circumstances and remains unsolved.

Does anyone who knew Hester or worked at Tri/Valley Growers in the 1970s have information that could help clarify what happened?