Jessica Ann Kinsey was 14 when she disappeared from Union, Missouri, on December 26, 1995. She left a friend’s house with 23-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, the son of a friend of her mother, and was accompanied by another man, Mark Henderson. Instead of returning to Union, the three traveled to the Dollar Inn in Cloverdale, Indiana, where Hopkins and Jessica shared a room and Henderson stayed next door.

Henderson later said he heard loud noises that night like a body being thrown against a wall; Hopkins told him they were having sex. The next morning Jessica and Hopkins were gone and Henderson’s car was reported stolen. Hopkins pawned a ring in Paris, Tennessee, on December 27. The abandoned vehicle turned up in Compton, California, within two weeks, and there were reported sightings in Compton of Hopkins with a girl matching Jessica’s description. Hopkins returned to Missouri in spring or summer 1996 without Jessica and gave investigators a false lead when questioned in November 1996.

Hopkins allegedly told several people over the years that he had murdered Jessica, and in April 2008 he killed his wife and then himself. He was never charged in Jessica’s disappearance. Missouri authorities continue to investigate. Did anyone in Union or the Compton area see Jessica after December 26, 1995?