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Claudine Jaquier Gifford, 43, was last seen the evening of July 6, 2014, leaving a tiki bar at Windmill Point Marina in White Stone, Virginia. She had moved to Virginia in 2013 and was living apart from her husband and teenage daughter in Florida. Witnesses said Claudine was heavily intoxicated that night and was carried to a vehicle by her boyfriend of about two months, James Todd Kessler.

Kessler’s accounts of that night changed; he first said he had let her out of the car less than a mile from the bar and later said others helped her into a silver SUV. Friends described his behavior toward Claudine as possessive, and they reported heavy drinking. Loved ones reported her missing the next day after she failed to be heard from. Investigators later found bloodstains in Kessler’s home and car that were confirmed to be Claudine’s, and cell phone records placed her phone near Kessler’s family home the night she disappeared rather than at the marina.

The case ended with a conviction in connection with Claudine’s disappearance, but her body has never been found, and her family remains without a final resting place. If anyone knew Claudine, her routines, or saw her in White Stone in July 2014, please share what you remember.