Family Still Hopeful 24 Years After Woman Disappeared From OC

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Twenty-four years later, Renee LaManna’s sister remains optimistic. LaManna went missing from Ocean City in 1994. There have been no confirmed sightings since 1995.

A woman who was spotted in North Carolina and Virginia in 2015 was determined not to be her, according to the prosecutor's office.

Margaret LaManna met with Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Marshall Craddick on Monday, Jan. 8, the day of the 24th anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, according to the Ocean City Gazette. The prosecutor’s office told the newspaper the case is still active and they are hopeful they will be able to find Renee LaManna, who would be 59 years old today.

Renee LaManna suffers from dissociative fugue disorder, a form of amnesia. It is believed she doesn't know her last name or how long she has been missing. LaManna was studying nuclear medicine technology in Fresh Meadows, New York in 1994. She was found walking the streets incoherently that year, and put into a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

After being discharged, she was taken to her sister's home on Wesley Avenue in Ocean City. She suddenly ran from the home around 7 p.m. on Jan. 8, 1994, into sub-freezing temperatures, carrying a blue bathrobe. She was later seen at the Waterfront Bar in Somers Point, and her bathrobe was found two blocks away shortly after her disappearance.

In a flyer posted on a Facebook page dedicated to finding her, she is described as 5'2," between 100 and 120 pounds, with brown eyes and brown/gray hair. She has a Keloid scar near her left elbow crease that may have faded, and a widows peak. She is multilingual, Catholic-Muslim, and doesn't drink or do drugs.

Her last confirmed sightings were in the Chamber Street Subway in Lower Manhattan in December 1994, and in Northfield trying to get a bus ticket back to New York City in May 1995.

To learn more about the case, visit facebook.com/reneelamannamissing, or visit Twitter @ReneeLaManna.