Charlotte Irene Lysdale was 68 when she went missing after a visit to her former home in Pine River, Minnesota. On the evening of June 14, 1985, she drove to the house on Lower Hay Lake to meet Jerome Edwin Bye, the real estate agent buying the property. Bye said their meeting lasted about two hours and that he paid her a substantial sum; he reported that she left the property. That was the last confirmed sighting.

Two days later a niece found Lysdale’s Woodglen Apartments door locked and the Sunday paper unread on the stoop. The apartment looked in order, with fresh coffee grounds in the kitchen, her car in the garage and no signs of forced entry or struggle, but her purse was missing. Lysdale was 5 feet 1 inch and 135 pounds, with gray hair, hazel eyes and a limp from an old ankle injury.

Bye recorded the deed to the property three days after their meeting. He was later indicted for first-degree murder and for theft; the 1988 trial proceeded without a recovered body. Bye was acquitted of murder but convicted of theft and receiving stolen property. Foul play is suspected, but what happened to Charlotte that June evening remains unresolved. Did anyone in Pine River know her routines or see her after June 14?