On morning of May 26th, 1986, which was a Memorial Day Monday, the children awoke to find their father had already left for work as a taxi driver and they assumed that their mother was still asleep. When their father returned home for lunch he noted that Satnam was missing. There was a note left on the fridge written in punjabi (from India) saying that she was leaving. Her car was missing for a few days and was later found abandoned. She did not take her license, wallet or purse.