Barbara Nave was last seen in Sumter, South Carolina on February 8, 2017. Her son heard from her on February 9, and on that same day she also emailed a friend and spoke to a contractor. She has never been heard from again. Her friends realized there was something wrong when one of them went to her house on Tondaleia Drive off U.S. 521 and found the front door open and Nave's purse lying inside. Her money and credit cards were still inside the purse, and nothing appeared to be disturbed, but there was no sign of her. Her loved ones stated she would have never left her purse at home unless she was only going for a walk, and she normally took her cherished Lhasa Apso dogs with her, but the dogs were left behind, without any food or water. Two of them were inside her house; her third dog, which had been sick, was dead. Her case remains unsolved.