Phyliss E. Brewer, 19 and known as Sparky, was last seen leaving a residence on North Hubbard Road in Lowellville, Ohio, on June 13, 1981, intending to go for a walk and never returned. At the time she was a Conneaut High School student living with her father in Conneaut and was described as five feet six inches tall with blonde or red hair. Her disappearance was not reported for decades and no official investigation began until 2014, when the coroner’s office handling a sister’s affairs discovered Phyliss was unaccounted for.

Investigators later obtained a DNA sample from a niece to aid searches, but the case is complicated by court records showing a Phyllis Brewer had interactions with the Conneaut Police Department in 1982, including a ten-day jail sentence in May 1982. That discrepancy has led authorities to consider that Phyliss may have vanished later than 1981 or that someone else used her identity. Some surviving relatives have suggested the possibility of the father’s involvement, but the trail is cold because both parents and all siblings are deceased.

Does anyone have memories of Phyliss, knew the family in 1981–82, or can help clarify the 1982 records?