Seventeen-year-old Kathryn Mae Quackenbush, known as Kitty, vanished while visiting her father in Delmar, Maryland in the summer of 1981. On the evening of Tuesday, July 14, she planned to go bowling in nearby Salisbury and expected her boyfriend to pick her up. When he was a few minutes late she reportedly started walking south along Route 13. About five minutes after she is believed to have started walking he arrived and she was nowhere to be found.

At the time Kathryn was described as a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 2 inches tall and about 105 pounds; she was born February 26, 1964. The case has been classified as endangered missing and investigators suspected foul play from early in the inquiry. The Maryland State Police have kept the case open but what happened after she left that highway remains unknown.

If anyone was in the Delmar or Route 13 area on the evening of July 14, 1981, or has information about Kathryn’s movements that night, please share what you know.