Left: Smalley, circa 1988; Right: Age-progressed image of Smalley at age 30 (circa 1999).
Susan Renee Smalley, 18 - Missing since March 19, 1988 from Carrollton, TX, car found 2 days later
Date Of Birth: September 19, 1969
Age at Time of Disappearance: 18 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8; 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; green eyes. She wears glasses or contacts.
Marks, Scars: Smalley's ears are both pierced multiple times.
Clothing: White sweater and blue pants. She was carrying a navy shoulder bag with camel trim.
Dentals:Available - All 4 wisdom teeth removed and five fillings.
Agency Number: 286380
NCMEC #: NCMC707842
NCIC Number: M-503980654
Agency Number: 286380
The Doe Network: Case File 102DFTX
Smalley and her friend, Stacie Madison, stayed at Smalley's home overnight on March 19, 1988. Both girls had disappeared by the following morning (March 20). Police know the girls were at Susan's house by midnight, but went back out.
At some point during the evening, they drove to Arlington and found an apartment full of people hanging out. They left, with plans to eat at Chili's, and said they might return, according to the police file. That night, Susan and Stacie also went to the Steak and Ale on Belt Line Road (photo included below). Stacie waited in her car while Susan went inside to talk to a coworker. Susan and Stacie left in less than five minutes. A 7-Eleven clerk later told police the two had tried to buy beer from her Saturday night, apparently before they went to the restaurant. That was the last time anyone saw them.
Since it was the last night of their Spring Break, 17-year-old Stacie Elisabeth Madison (right) and 18-year-old Susan Renee Smalley (left), both seniors at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), were determined that the night of Saturday, March 19, 1988 would be devoted to carefree, youthful fun. This included shoe shopping at Prestonwood Town Center and visiting friends in Arlington.
Shortly before midnight, the two returned to the Carrollton home owned by Susan Smalley's mother. They remained there but a few minutes before venturing out into the night one last time. They would never return. Sometime after midnight, on the morning of Sunday, March 20, 1988, the girls stopped at the Steak and Ale restaurant in nearby Addison, where Susan visited with friends.
http://missinggirlsbook.com/images/-s_a_at_night_7ip2.jpg
Two days later, on Tuesday, March 22, 1988, Stacie Madison's pale yellow 1967 Ford Mustang (pictured below) was discovered in the parking lot of Webbs Chapel Village on Forest Lane - locked, with her portable stereo undisturbed on the back seat. There was no sign of either Smalley or Madison. It is believed that Stacie and Susan traveled from Steak and Ale to Forest Lane, the legendary cruise strip known to North Dallas teenagers as the premier hot spot for meeting up with friends. Original case investigator Ohlen L. Sapp asserts that, "For certain [Stacie and Susan] ended up on down on Forest Lane [and] whoever's vehicle Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley got into, they knew them." Susan Smalley was only 18 but possessed the maturity and responsibility of an older woman. She worked two jobs while earning above-average grades.
By all appearances, the girls parked and locked their car with every intention of returning to it later and proceeded to their final destination with persons unknown.
http://missinggirlsbook.com/images/-mustang_j6y1_nc9i.jpg
Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley have not been seen or heard from since March 20, 1988 and, in the 23 years since they disappeared, with the exception of one "person of interest" whom the original case investigators insist was never "properly eliminated as a suspect in the case," substantive leads regarding what became of the girls have never materialized.
http://missinggirlsbook.com/
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/smalley_susan.html
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-20606.html