Christine Blackburn-Wiles, a 39-year-old mother from Belleview, Florida, was last seen at about 1:00 a.m. on April 21, 2007. She and her sister had been to several bars that night and Blackburn-Wiles left with her sister’s boyfriend, Billy Joe Ashton Sr., getting into a 1995 Chrysler New Yorker Ashton was driving. Ashton later said he dropped her off near her estranged husband’s residence; the husband denied seeing her that night.

Her family did not report her missing immediately, believing she might have traveled to Texas; a report was filed in early May after she failed to contact her daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Investigators later recovered the Chrysler at Wildcat Lake in Lake County, and forensic testing found Blackburn-Wiles’s blood in the trunk. A witness reported seeing Ashton burn items from the trunk; excavation of the burn site turned up clothing fragments and buttons from Faded Glory jeans, a brand she often wore. An informant told police Ashton admitted striking her, cleaning up blood, placing it in the trunk, and saying he had gotten rid of her.

Ashton, who has a prior kidnapping and assault conviction, became the primary suspect.

Did anyone in the Belleview or Lake County area know Christine, her movements that April night, or see the Chrysler around Wildcat Lake?