Barbara Ann Johnson-Willard was 29 and living in a mobile home in Jay, Oklahoma, when she was last seen by family on June 17, 1996, after an evening watching movies with her niece. She missed work, a Father’s Day family gathering and her father’s birthday, and her family reported her missing five days after she was last seen.

On June 27, 1996, her maroon and gray 1986 Mercury Cougar was found abandoned near a remote, brush-filled ravine in Delaware County. Investigators found transmission fluid poured over the vehicle, shreds of clothing in the trunk and gasoline tank, and blood and skin tissue in the trunk later matched to Barbara’s DNA. Those biological samples were described as corresponding to a deceased person, prompting suspicion of foul play.

A coworker, John Lee Weeks, was identified early in the inquiry after his DNA was found on two cigarette butts in the car’s ashtray and his fingerprints were recovered inside the vehicle. Weeks was charged with first-degree murder in 2011 while serving an unrelated sentence in Kansas, but that charge was dropped in 2014 for lack of evidence and he was returned to Kansas. Barbara has never been found.

Does anyone have information about Barbara’s last movements, the area where the Cougar was located, or contacts who knew her in Jay in 1996?