Emma Jean Collins, known as Peanut, was 17 when she vanished from Wilmington, North Carolina. She was last seen on July 10, 1986, and described as a Black female with black hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 2 inches and about 98 pounds. Her disappearance was not reported until August 21, 1986, when her grandmother filed the report after receiving anonymous and neighborhood tips that Emma had died of a drug overdose and that her body had been hidden.

At the time Emma went missing she was known to be involved with drugs and sex work and was classified as an endangered missing person. Reports suggested she may have been in the company of someone named Felicia around the time she disappeared. A police investigation was opened but produced no body, no confirmed evidence of death, and no credible leads; the case went cold.

Anyone who knew Emma, Felicia, or has information about what happened in July 1986 is asked to come forward.