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On the evening of August 8, 1987, 23-year-old Michelle Quintana left her home in the Rancho de Luna subdivision in Santa Fe saying she was going to use a payphone on Cerrillos Road. She was last seen leaving from Prince Road wearing a red shirt, blue jeans and red shoes; she was a real estate agent with blonde hair and brown eyes. Her flatbed truck later turned up abandoned at the De Vargas Center Mall and an unidentified caller told police she had been seen getting into a red Jeep at the mall.

Investigators suspected foul play early. The pager Quintana carried that night belonged to a cocaine dealer who knew her; police say there were allegations of a substantial cocaine transaction and Quintana’s husband reported that $6,000 was missing from a home safe around the time she vanished. The dealer admitted she owed him money but denied paging her or knowing her whereabouts. Both the dealer and Quintana’s husband were later jailed on separate drug charges, but no definitive proof has linked the dealer to her disappearance.

What can readers add about Michelle’s movements that night or anyone who might have seen her at the De Vargas Center Mall?