Frances Shurtleff Sessions, 26, disappeared on May 20, 1946, after a family outing near Bear Cave in Ogden, Utah. That afternoon she had been visiting her father’s farm with her 6-year-old son Lee and a nephew. Loose shale on a steep mountainside caused the two boys to fall; Lee died from the fall and the nephew survived. Frances, described as overwhelmed with grief, carried her son back toward her parents’ farmhouse and was last seen about 4:00 p.m. at the house where she briefly went to wash up.

Shortly afterward she left the farmhouse unnoticed still wearing blood-stained clothing. Witnesses later reported seeing a woman matching her description walking south on Harrison Boulevard, but Frances never returned and was not found. Numerous searches and reported sightings followed in the months after her disappearance, but none were confirmed. Her case remains an unsolved cold case and her family and local authorities continue to seek answers.

Did anyone in Ogden or the surrounding area have contact with Frances in the days after May 20, 1946, or remember those reported sightings along Harrison Boulevard?