On the evening of September 29, 1975, 18-year-old Cassandra Nadine Landrum, known to family as Sandra, left her parents’ home in Union City, Georgia to walk a half-block to a payphone at a Dairy Queen and never returned. She was last seen wearing a short-sleeved red shirt over a long-sleeved red shirt, blue jeans, and barefoot. Cassandra was described as a white female, 5 feet 1 inch, about 100 pounds, with blonde hair, hazel eyes, a small scar on her forehead, a tattoo of the letter J on her left arm, and another tattoo on her forearm.

Early in the inquiry police considered that she might have left voluntarily, but family said that did not fit her character. In the weeks after her disappearance the family received anonymous calls claiming Cassandra had been murdered, sometimes with graphic details; those calls did not produce usable leads. The Union City Police Department retains the case file and the disappearance remains unsolved.

If anyone has memories of Union City around that September evening or information about Cassandra’s last movements, please come forward.