Wilda Mae Benoit was 14 when she disappeared from her family’s home in Creole, Louisiana, after being released from the hospital on July 23, 1992. Heavily sedated from shoulder surgery and taking pain medication, she was last seen resting in her bedroom that evening; by morning she was gone. Law enforcement initially treated the case as a teenage runaway after a jewelry box was found missing, but the family has long rejected that theory, saying Wilda feared the dark and would not have left alone. Reports differ about what she was wearing — a hospital gown or black and white shorts with a long-sleeved green shirt — but she was described as 5 feet tall, 100 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, pierced ears and dimples. There were unconfirmed suggestions she might have traveled to Florida. Her disappearance was later included in the music video for Soul Asylum’s Runaway Train, but no significant leads developed and the case remains unsolved.

Does anyone who lived in or traveled through Creole in July 1992 have memories or information about that night or anyone who might have left the area soon afterward?