A Texas woman, who is interested in having the mysterious 1987 disappearance of former Newtown resident Regina Brown solved, has created a Facebook page that seeks information from the public on the missing person case.Missing American Airlines Flight Attendant Regina F. Brown.The Newtown Bee who covered the Brown disappearance for the newspaper, is an administrator for the Facebook page. Ms Peterson has been working on a book on the Brown disappearance.Disappeared Browns' house on Whippoorwill Hill Road and the grounds of surrounding properties, including a nearby large undeveloped property, but found no evidence of foul play.jason.frank@newtown-ct.gov.

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Lisa Peterson, a former reporter at

Ms Peterson said recently week she hopes the Brown case is solved, adding that the Facebook page may produce investigatory leads for police toward that goal.

Ms Peterson said the Texas woman who is interested in spreading the word about "cold cases" via the Internet does not want her identity disclosed.

Newtown Police Detective Jason Frank has investigated the Brown case for many years. Det Frank welcomed the Facebook page, saying, "I think it's a wonderful thing that's being done."

The detective said that a couple of new leads have occurred in the Brown case, but declined to be specific. He said he will continue working on the case. Det Frank joined the police department in 1996, becoming a detective in 2003.

Ms Peterson said the Facebook page was created in March 2015. As an administrator, Ms Peterson edits content on the webpage.

"It's been a good forum to put information out there about the case," Ms Peterson said, adding that she found the webpage by chance while doing an Internet search concerning the Brown case.

Publicizing the Facebook page would make it more widely known, increasing the possibility of new leads surfacing, Ms Peterson said.

A notable Newtown cold case which has been solved involved the disappearance of Elizabeth Heath.

In 2010, while making repairs in a barn at residential property on Poverty Hollow Road, a man discovered the hidden remains of Elizabeth Heath, 32, a woman who had been reported as missing to police in 1984 by her husband John Heath.

In 2012, police arrested John Heath, who then lived in Bridgewater, on a murder charge. In 2013, a jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the crime. John Heath died in prison at age 72 in October 2015.

Ms Brown, an American Airlines flight attendant, was last seen on March 26, 1987. The mother of three young children, Ms Brown was 35 years old when she disappeared. Police described her as an African American of Creole descent with very light skin, noting that many people thought she was Caucasian.

"In 1987, Regina Brown was involved in a divorce and had dropped off her daughter and babysitter at … LaGuardia Airport. She was then supposed to have returned home to Newtown… Regina's vehicle was found. However, her whereabouts are still unknown," according to a police summary of her disappearance.

In 1995, Ms Brown was declared legally dead by probate court, but her body has never been found.

Ms Brown lived with her three children in a home at 18 Whippoorwill Hill Road. On March 30, 1987, she failed to show up for work on a scheduled flight.

Ms Brown's parents and the babysitter, meanwhile, became concerned because they had not been able to contact her. They called one of her neighbors and the neighbor then called the police on April 2.

When Ms Brown missed work on another flight on April 3, the airline contacted her estranged husband Willis Brown, Jr, then 53, an American Airlines pilot who was then living in Queens, N.Y. He called the Newtown police later that day to file a missing person report.

At the time of Regina Brown's disappearance, the Browns were going through a contentious divorce and child custody battle. They had been married for less than five years, living all of that time in Newtown.

After Ms Brown disappeared, Newtown police and state police searched the

Ms Brown's 1980 Honda was found on April 6, 1987, in New York City with the keys still in the ignition. The vehicle had several parking violation tags on the windshield. Police transported the Honda back to Connecticut for forensic testing, but it yielded no significant evidence. The police questioned Willis Brown when they learned that he had come to Newtown from Queens on March 26 for a dental appointment. He told police that he went to his Queens apartment immediately after the appointment.

Mr Brown agreed to take a polygraph test - provided that it was administered after the divorce proceedings were concluded - but he later changed his mind and refused.

After Regina Brown disappeared, police and news reports noted similarities between her case and that of another Newtown flight attendant, Helle Crafts, 39, who had disappeared several months earlier, in November 1986.

Both women were flight attendants, married to airline pilots and were going through divorce proceedings. In each case, relatives and friends insisted the women would not have willingly abandoned their children.

While the Brown case remains unsolved, Ms Crafts' husband, Richard, was convicted of killing his wife, cutting up her body with a chainsaw, and then disposing of the parts with a rented woodchipper. He is serving a 50-year sentence on a murder conviction. On February 9, Mr Crafts was being held at a state prison in Suffield.

Ms Peterson asks anyone with information on the Brown case to contact Det Frank at Newtown Police Department, at 203-426-5841 or