Lula Griffith Briggs was 76 when she disappeared from her farmhouse on Route 26 east of Woodsfield, Ohio, on the afternoon of October 31, 1961. She spoke on the telephone around 3:00 p.m.; her husband Lee Roy Briggs was in the fields and returned to find dinner already on the stove but the house empty. Lula’s apron was folded on the counter, cash from selling eggs and her purse were left behind, and there were no signs of struggle or forced entry.

A large search followed: about one hundred people searched the area, bloodhounds were used, and a pond on the property was drained, all without result. Two witnesses later reported seeing a woman matching Lula’s description slumped in the back of a blue-and-white 1959 Chevrolet station wagon with West Virginia plates, accompanied by two men; a sketch of an estimated 35–40-year-old driver was made but the man was never located. Theories included a possible ransom linked to her son’s recent oil investments, but original police records were lost in a flood and key details remain unresolved.

Did anyone in the Woodsfield area remember seeing that station wagon or a woman matching Lula’s description that day?