Sixteen-year-old Jody Lynn Brant left Lawrenceville, Georgia, in the late evening of May 27, 1994, driving her black 1987 Ford Escort on a planned solo 770-mile trip to visit a cousin in Pontiac, Michigan for the Memorial Day weekend. She called her cousin on May 28 saying she was lost near Erie, Ohio; later that day a message left on a friend’s answering machine said she had arrived safely in Pontiac, though authorities now suspect that call may have been made under duress. Jody was described as 5 feet 3 inches, with blonde hair, blue/green eyes and two tattoos: JB between her thumb and forefinger on her left hand and a cross with radiating lines on the inside of her left ankle. Her car was found abandoned and deliberately burned after 10:00 p.m. on May 28, 1994, on a rural road near Turk Road and Consear Road in Ottawa Lake, Michigan, a couple of miles north of Toledo.

Keys remained in the ignition, the driver’s seat was pushed all the way back despite Jody’s stature, and her two suitcases and roller skates were inside the charred vehicle. Investigators searched the area with teams, dogs and a helicopter but found no trace of Jody.

If anyone knew Jody, saw her car along I-75, or has information about where she might have gone, please share what is known.