Melisa Maureen Sloan was 23 and a licensed practical nurse when she was last seen in Orlando, Florida on May 1, 1994. She reportedly rented a car at Orlando National Airport intending to drive to Houston, Texas but never arrived. A few days later the rental car was found abandoned, stripped, and burned in Pensacola, Florida.

About a year before she vanished, Melisa and her husband, John Sloan, had moved to Orlando from Kentucky. Their marriage was described as tumultuous; police were called to the apartment twice in the nine months before her disappearance and John Sloan was arrested after the second incident. Melisa had left him, returned to Kentucky, then reconciled and came back to Florida. She had told a coworker she planned to leave him again shortly before she went missing. Her family says she would not have left without contact, and she left behind a cat and her own car. Most personal items were gone from the apartment but her bathrobe remained.

There has been no activity on her credit cards, driver’s license, Social Security number, or nursing license. Authorities suspect foul play and an investigator described the circumstances as very, very suspicious; John Sloan has declined to cooperate with the inquiry. Does anyone have information about Melisa’s movements in May 1994 or recall seeing the burned rental car in Pensacola?