Tina Donovan, 45, disappeared from Ottawa, Illinois on January 13, 2020. A family member reported her missing the next day after she did not show up for work. The last confirmed sighting was surveillance video at a bank in Ottawa at about 1:45 p.m., where she was wearing a black coat and using crutches and a black walking boot for a recent right-foot surgery.

Her cell phone was later traced to the vicinity of Starved Rock State Park around 5:23 p.m., and her vehicle was found unoccupied in the Starved Rock Lodge parking lot. Park video showed a woman matching her description, on crutches, walking from the lot toward a trail. Search teams recovered some of her personal effects, including her crutches, at the base of a steep cliff near the Illinois River, and investigators noted the difficult, icy conditions during sonar-assisted river searches.

Tina had left cryptic letters and a note referencing eating from the tree of life. The search remains active and she has not been found. Did anyone in the Ottawa or Starved Rock area see Tina or recall a woman on crutches that afternoon?