Ann Marie Shaw Godbey, 28 and a mother of two, was last seen in Manassas, Virginia on December 3, 1995. She used the surname Godbey though she and the children’s father, Walter Thomas Godbey, were never married. Earlier that year she had been granted custody of the children and a court had ordered Walter to pay child support.

After Ann Marie disappeared, Walter told family she had dropped the children at his home on Oronoco Lane and gone to the Philippines to visit their mother. Her sister Jewel Terry later said that an argument and an estrangement delayed reporting the disappearance. Terry also disputed Walter’s account, noting Ann Marie did not have a passport and their mother had died years earlier. In 2001, following Walter Godbey’s arrest in an unrelated murder, Ann Marie was finally reported missing and investigators focused on Walter as a person of interest.

Police later found Ann Marie’s identification and personal papers hidden in the Godbey home. Walter’s then-wife Carla told investigators that Walter had confessed to killing Ann Marie, shown her the body, and claimed the torso had been buried in a Fairfax wooded park; searches produced no remains.

Did anyone in the Manassas or Fairfax area know Ann Marie or see her in December 1995?