Daphne Jones, 22: Pregnant Woman Vanished From New Orleans In 1999

Her family reportedly believes she's deceased, but they still want answers.

A young woman has been missing for over two decades, and there doesn't seem to be any movement in her case. It was just days after the New Year when Daphne Jones reportedly had enough. Reports state that the 22-year-old was a student at the University of New Orleans and moved out of the dormitory into an apartment off-campus. Daphne learned she was pregnant, so she reportedly decided to leave school, quit her part-time hostess job at Brennan's Restaurant, and return home to Maryland to move back in with her mother. She vanished before that could happen.

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According to reports, Daphne Jones was two months pregnant when she told her boyfriend, who hasn't been named in reports, that she was moving out. On January 3, she was scheduled to work at the restaurant at 3:00 p.m.. However, the expectant mother never arrived. It wasn't believed that she would walk away from her life or run off because she'd purchased her plane ticket and was scheduled to return to Maryland on January 9, just six days later.