Annie Sullivan was 85 when she disappeared from her Lacey’s Chapel home in Bessemer, Alabama. On April 24, 1991, a friend arrived to take her to a doctor’s appointment and found her house occupied but Annie gone. Inside there was blood on two beds but no signs of a struggle or forced entry. Several personal items were left behind — her purse with $500, her bedside gun, her glasses and only half of her dentures — details family said she would never leave without. Investigators also noted an ashtray with a cigarette butt, though Annie did not smoke, and an open freezer door.

Searches of the nearby woods by police and hundreds of volunteers produced no trace. Theories have ranged from illness or disorientation leading her to wander off to the possibility of foul play. A witness later said they spoke to a woman resembling Annie who affirmed her identity, but that lead did not resolve the case. Anyone with information about Annie Sullivan or who may have seen her in April 1991 is asked to come forward.