Gertrude Trudy Mary Snedegar, 49, was last seen in Astor, Florida on July 4, 1986. At the time she was living with her ex-husband, Stephen Cabe Snedegar, from whom she had divorced in 1983. She was 5 feet 10 inches, about 160 pounds, with red/auburn hair and hazel eyes, and sometimes used the name Trudy Romans.

In the months before she vanished Gertrude told her daughter, Brenda Challis, she feared for her life and said she had woken to find Stephen holding a gun to her head. On the night she was last seen the couple were reportedly going out country dancing and Gertrude left her purse, with money and credit cards, at home. Stephen told family the next morning that Gertrude had left him and moved to Tallahassee but gave several conflicting accounts to relatives and investigators. Gertrude was not reported missing for almost a year.

Her disappearance is tied to a string of mysterious cases connected to Stephen, including the 1981 disappearance and subsequent shooting death of their daughter, Lora Lynn Morris, and two other men who vanished. A Florida grand jury investigated Gertrude’s case; Stephen died of cancer in January 1990 before he was to testify, and searches of his former property in 1994 found no remains. Does anyone who knew Gertrude or the family have information that could help clarify what happened?