Deborah Lee Crawford, 41, disappeared in late summer 2013 after moving from Toledo, Ohio, to Marietta, Georgia. She was last seen by a friend on August 19, 2013, at a motel off Interstate 75 in Bartow County. Family concern grew when she missed her routine daily call to her son and did not answer birthday plans with her sister on August 20.

On October 18, 2013, a hunter found human skeletal remains in a shallow grave off Dabbs Bridge Road in northern Paulding County. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and anthropologists from the University of Tennessee positively identified the remains as Deborah’s six months later and concluded she sustained blunt force trauma to the head. A friend who had been with her the day she vanished initially gave false information to police, later admitting she left Deborah at the Bartow County motel; that friend was arrested for making false statements.

Investigators say Deborah may have been involved in a high-risk lifestyle that included drug activity and that she befriended a woman in Atlanta who family members believe steered her toward prescription painkiller schemes and prostitution. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI report the case remains unsolved; Crime Stoppers of Atlanta is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Does anyone with knowledge of Deborah, her associates, or her movements in August 2013 have information to share?