Toni Ann Bachman was last seen at her home in White Bear Township, Minnesota on April 25, 1997. Her husband told sheriff's investigators she was gone from their home at Stillwater Street when he returned from a shopping trip. Her purse and some of her clothes were gone, but not the family vehicles.

Toni Bachman's husband allegedly gave vague and inconsistent accounts about her whereabouts around the time of her disappearance.

Toni Bachman told her mother in an April 20 phone conversation that she planned to leave her husband around May 1. Foul play is strongly suspected in Toni's disappearance.