Frances Hatadis, 68, was last seen in South Lake Tahoe, California, on or around July 23 or 24, 1997. She was staying at the Shamrock Inn near Stateline; her son filed a missing persons report on August 4, 1997 after he could not reach her and found her motel room in disarray with a computer and other items missing. Her blue 1988 Dodge Dynasty was gone and there was no sign she had packed personal belongings. A large bloodstain was later found on the underside of the mattress.

Later that month, law enforcement stopped a man identified as Edward T. Hawkins in Morgan County, Colorado, driving Hatadis’s vehicle. Her belongings were in the trunk and Hawkins had several stolen credit cards. Hawkins, a convicted bank robber who had been released from prison about a month before Hatadis’s disappearance and who was wanted for armed robbery in Las Vegas at the time, denied ever meeting her and said he bought the car from an unidentified person. He is the only suspect; her husband has been cleared. The investigation remains open.

Did anyone who knew Frances or who was in the Stateline area in late July 1997 see her or her blue Dodge Dynasty?