Old home videos, pictures and newspaper clippings is just about all Alison Duiker has left to remember her mother.

"I was five, so I don't remember a lot," said Duiker.

Duiker's mother, Lonene Rogers, has been missing for 40 years.

"[She was] literally gone without a trace," said Duiker.

Last seen at there home on the night of January 6, 1986, Rogers vanished during a reported blizzard in Crawford County's Hayfield Township.

"Everything I've heard about her was that she was funny and she had a heart of gold," said Duiker.

She was known as Lonnie and was 28 years old at the time of her disappearance.

Lonnie was also deaf, a young mother of two and desperately trying to leave a bad marriage, according to Duiker.

"I believe my father is responsible and I believe that people know something that might help to convict him," said Duiker.

This is Duiker's first television interview about her mother's case. She alleges what many others do - that her father, Clinton "Bud" Rogers, knows something or had something to do with Lonnie's disappearance.

Duiker has not had contact with him since she was a teenager.

"I feel stable enough to fight for her now, where I didn't until now," said Duiker. "I really was trying to just get through life on my own, but now I feel like her resilience is within me and I want to fight for her."

Bud Rogers is also deaf. State Police said his last known address was in Clymer, Pennsylvania.

He has been interviewed multiple times and claims he woke up that morning to his wife gone. He never reported her missing.

"He is not officially a suspect in the case," said Nicole Ludwig, a State Police investigator. "He is listed as a person of interest. What that means is we can't force them to talk to us for this investigation. He's been reached out to several times. He's denied or not gotten back to us regarding this."

What police do know is there's no body and no evidence that points to foul play.

While it is possible Lonene could have left on her own, Duiker said that is a theory she has never believed.

"She never would've left us with him, knowing how abusive he was to her," said Duiker. "He was violent. It was a bad blizzard, very frigid temperatures. She wouldn't have just left, and she left her hearing aid, her purse."

Duiker and Ludwig agree someone knows what happened in this house 40 years ago. Both believe the answer may lie within the area's deaf community.

"I know the deaf community is very tight knit," said Duiker. "They really don't trust hearing people for the most part and they stick together."

"I think someone knows what happened to her," said Ludwig. "They might not want to talk about it, which is understandable, but we're just looking to bring justice to her and the family."

Duiker has been without her mother for most of her life. Now a mother herself, she is grateful this fight for justice has brought her closer to the woman she barely got to know.

"Through this fight to try to find justice, I'm meeting people who are telling me things about her who make her come to life for me," said Duiker. "My hope is someone listening might have it within their heart to come forward and share what they know."