My husband's aunt disappeared. I don't remember when, but my husband has no memory of her. No one in the family has heard from her in 20+ years.

I have a compulsive need to know things, so I started researching her to see what I could find. I checked obituaries to see if I could find one for her using both her real name and some aliases I found. I also used a picture one of my husband's relatives posted of her when she was a kid, and I compared it to as many Jane Doe's as I could. I found three or so that could MAYBE be her, but it was hard to tell. The fact I was looking was my little secret because my husband's family is very religious, and when my husband's grandpa/aunt's dad was dying, he said he could see her, so they were all convinced that she was dead.

About two years ago, I paid $30 or whatever for one of those reports that show people's known addresses, and I found records of her getting arrested about three years after her dad died. All of the addresses were five or more years old. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to burst their bubble about their dad being wrong, and I thought everyone would think it's weird that I would put in so much effort to find my husband's aunt that he can't even remember. A couple weeks ago, something reminded me of the report I pulled, and I decided to tell my husband. He recommended I call his mom, and when I did she said that she had just talked with the relative who posted the photo I was using the other day about the disappearance. She said she would call that relative and they would decide how to proceed. I haven't heard anything else since then.

If your name is Jodi, you were born in LA, you lived near Seattle in the mid-2010's, and you haven't spoken with your family in decades, your family never forgot about you and want to see you again.