Eloise Way, a 48-year-old bookkeeper in Charleston, South Carolina, vanished on August 15, 1962, while making routine bank deposits. Employed a decade at Atlantic Coast Life Insurance on Wentworth Street, she left the office on foot for a four-block walk carrying more than two thousand dollars in bills, coins, and checks, wearing a yellow dress with white stripes, tan shoes, sunglasses, and a large white purse. Her coworkers reported her missing about four hours later after the banks confirmed she never arrived.

Her apartment on Thomas Street showed no signs of disturbance; suitcases and clothing were in place except for the outfit she wore that day, and her bifocal eyeglasses were left in a desk drawer. A witness later described seeing a woman speaking with a man in a car near her workplace, then getting into the vehicle, but it was never confirmed that the woman was Eloise. Family members and the retired detective on the case offered differing views over the years, and no conclusive evidence has emerged.

Did anyone in Charleston remember Eloise’s route or see a woman matching her description that morning?