Kristi Gwen O’Pry was 26 and pregnant when she vanished from Shreveport, Louisiana, on the evening of July 19, 1996. She arranged a ride because she didn’t own a car; the last confirmed sighting placed her leaving her sister’s home around 8:00 p.m. with Eric Dale Mickelson in his white 1971 Chevrolet Fleetside pickup. Mickelson later said he dropped her at South Park Mall around 8:30 p.m., but mall security recalled no one matching her description and phone records did not show the Circle K call Mickelson said they made. Kristi left behind a three-year-old daughter and most of her personal belongings; her boyfriend of six years, Jerry Todd Dean, did not report her missing until July 23 and her mother filed the police report July 24. Mickelson refused a polygraph; Dean and a roommate passed theirs.

In 2007 Mickelson, then in prison on an unrelated murder charge, confessed to strangling Kristi the night she disappeared. He said he initially disposed of her body in a pond on his property, then later dismembered remains and scattered them in dumpsters and a culvert. Investigators drained the pond and reported finding evidence that corroborated parts of his confession. In August 2007 Mickelson was charged with second-degree murder, but Kristi’s body has never been found. Does anyone have memories from Shreveport in 1996 or information that could help fill gaps in Kristi’s last known movements?