Lula Griffith Briggs, 76, disappeared from her farmhouse on Route 26 east of Woodsfield, Ohio, on the afternoon of October 31, 1961. She spoke on the telephone about 3:00 p.m.; when her husband returned from the fields to the house with a meal cooking on the stove, Lula was gone. There was no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Her purse, folded apron, and a small amount of cash were left on a counter.

A search of about one hundred people with bloodhounds and a drained pond on the family property produced no trace. Family members passed polygraph tests. Two witnesses separately reported seeing a woman matching Lula’s description slumped in the backseat of a blue and white 1959 Chevrolet station wagon with West Virginia plates; the driver was described as a 35-to-40-year-old stocky man with black hair who asked for directions to the Ohio River. A composite sketch of that man was circulated but he was never identified. A lost police file and decades without answers have left the case unresolved.

Did anyone in the Woodsfield area or with knowledge of 1959 Chevrolet station wagons and West Virginia plates around 1961 ever hear about this vehicle or the man seen asking for directions? If so, please share information.