Brown-Boussetta was last seen at approximately 2:30 p.m. on September 5, 2006 at her apartment in the vicinity of Southern Avenue and Natchez Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her landlord came by to make a repair and saw her eating Chinese food and ironing clothes. She has never been heard from again. When she was reported missing and her landlord returned to the apartment with the police, it was in the same condition the landlord last seen it; she said it looked like Brown-Bousetta had stepped out to run an errand and intended to return shortly. Her vehicle was later located abandoned in the parking lot of a gas station near her apartment. Brown-Boussetta had married in the summer of 2005, but her husband filed for divorce after less than a year. The divorce was finalized in October 2006, a month after Brown-Boussetta's disappearance, when she failed to appear at court dates. Her ex-husband was not aware she had disappeared until the Pittsburgh Police Department contacted him in 2008.