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Terri Lea Schlatter was 21 when she disappeared from Tulsa, Oklahoma, in February 1985 along with her one-year-old son, Nathan. Terri and her husband, Darrell Schlatter, had been indicted on federal bank fraud charges; after an initial flight she was located in Colorado, extradited to Oklahoma, and agreed to cooperate and testify against Darrell. Against family wishes she retrieved Nathan from his grandparents in Indiana and returned to Tulsa.

Terri’s last confirmed contacts were a phone call to her mother about Nathan’s medication and a drop-off of Nathan at his babysitter’s house. Later that day Darrell picked up the boy, told the babysitter she was no longer needed, and thereafter both Terri and Nathan vanished. Investigators revisited the disappearances in 1993 after Darrell was arrested on an unrelated murder charge; a local pond was drained but no remains were found. Darrell died by suicide in jail in June 1993.

Law enforcement’s working theory is that Darrell killed Terri to stop her testimony and killed Nathan to make it look like she had fled with the child. The cases remain open and unsolved. Does anyone have information about Terri, Nathan, or their last movements in Tulsa in February 1985?