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Cathleen Dennis, known as Cathy, was 28 when she vanished from Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 10, 1995. She and her sister Deanna had traveled from Omaha to work; they checked into a hotel and spent the night at a nightclub before separating to find clients. Deanna last saw Cathleen get into a light-colored Chevrolet, possibly a mid-1960s model, at Division Avenue and Putnam Street Southwest. When Deanna left at about 4:00 a.m., Cathleen could not be located and has not been heard from since.

At the time she disappeared Cathleen was described as an African-American woman with red hair, brown eyes, pierced ears, 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 135 pounds. Her family remembered her as goofy and the life of the party. Decades later, in early 2024, a convicted killer and long-haul trucker, Garry Artman, made a deathbed confession saying he murdered 11 women, including a young Black woman matching Cathleen’s description, and said he disposed of her body in a dumpster. Her remains have not been recovered.

Did anyone who knew Cathleen or worked in Grand Rapids in July 1995 see her that night or recall a light-colored Chevrolet near Division and Putnam?