Ida Dean Richardson-Anderson was 21 when she was last seen in Michigan on September 18, 1958, shortly before a court date in which she was expected to regain custody of her three young children. Born March 22, 1937, she had moved from Florida to the Detroit area, became ill with conditions including rheumatic fever and ulcers, and while hospitalized her husband placed the children in a boarding home and the State of Michigan took custody.

Plane tickets had been purchased for Ida and the children to fly to Jacksonville, Florida, after the custody hearing, but the tickets were never used. Her children, later reunited in 1995, could not find the original 1958 missing-person report and have uncovered no confirmed trace of her under her name; hospital checks and other searches found no match.

What can readers add about Ida’s last known day, her movements between Detroit and Ann Arbor, or anyone who might have seen her around September 18, 1958?