Details of Disappearance
Gibson was last seen departing a bar in Peoria, Illinois during the evening hours of July 8, 1995. She was wearing black spandex pants, a tight-fitting black blouse with diamond-shaped designs, black tennis shoes and earrings at the time of her disappearance. Authorities believe Gibson was accompanied by convicted murderer Arlie Ray Davis at the time. Davis claimed that he and Gibson visited Kingston Mines in Illinois afterwards, but no evidence was discovered to support his statement. Gibson has never been heard from again.
Davis was convicted of the murder of another Illinois woman in the late 1990s. Prostitutes working in the Peoria area reported that Davis enjoyed strangling and beating them in the early 1990s. Investigators said that he suffered from a sexual dysfunction and felt inferior towards women.
Gibson is one of several missing women from the Peoria area; others include Loretta Tinkham, and Cheryl Murray. Another woman named Sheryl Murwin vanished from Peoria in 1994; her skull was found in 2001 and identified in 2003. Authorities do not know if the cases are related, but it is possible that the women came into contact with Davis. He died after suffering a heart attack in prison in October 2002. Davis consistently maintained his innocence in the disappearances. Several unidentified female bodies have been located in the Peoria area in recent years, but the victims are not believed to be related to the missing women's cases.