Lily Mae Huff, 73, disappeared from Welcome Haven Nursing Home in Winchester, Virginia, on the morning of September 6, 1988. A resident for about three months and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she had a history of wandering and sometimes needed to be restrained in a wheelchair. Staff say she was waiting for an aide to help with her bath and is believed to have exited through a patio door in the dining room that was not equipped with an alarm.

At the time she left she was wearing a beige nightgown under a loose blue dress with red and white stripes, ankle socks, and blue slippers. A five-day search by local law enforcement produced no trace. In May 1992 her son Curtis offered a $15,000 reward; an anonymous letter then claimed someone had seen an older couple force Lily into a car outside a Safeway on the morning she vanished. The author later identified themself, but it is not clear whether that lead changed the outcome.

No confirmed evidence of foul play or of what happened to Lily has been established. Did anyone in the Winchester area see Lily or the couple near the Safeway that morning?