In the pre-dawn hours of a late October day in 1977, 36-year-old Betty Loggins Emmett and her four-month-old daughter Holly Ann disappeared from their home in Gainesville, Georgia. Betty’s husband, Homer Lee Emmett, told police an unidentified vehicle arrived at about 1:00 a.m., and that Betty briefly went back into the house to gather clothes before leaving with the baby and never returning. He said she mentioned leaving the state but gave no destination.

Homer was under investigation at the time for the 1973 death of his previous wife, Alice, and was later convicted of her murder; that case involved a single gunshot wound to the back of the head and evidence suggesting the scene had been disturbed from the inside. No photographs of Holly Ann are known to exist, public detail on the disappearance is sparse, and Betty and her daughter have never been located.

What information might still exist about Betty and Holly’s last known hours, or who saw a strange vehicle in Gainesville that night?