On the morning of May 27, Tania managed to arrange a plane trip back to New York for later that day and phoned Claudia's room around 8 a.m. The two met for breakfast and the women said their goodbyes. That afternoon, a lifeguard saw Kirschhoch - dressed in a bathing suit and t-shirt and wearing a portable radio - walking on the beach heading away from the resort. That was the last confirmed sighting of Claudia. On May 28, the day after Claudia was last seen, Anthony Grant called in sick and remained out of work the next four days. On June 2, when Claudia did not show up for work in New York, her parents were contacted. They called Sandals officials. What followed, the Kirschhoch's allege, was a series of mistakes and lies perpetrated by Sandals officials and the police. A check of Claudia's room revealed that all of her clothes, save the bathing suit, were still in her room. Her passport, $180 in cash, credit and ATM cards, a camera and a cellular phone were also there. Claudia's belongings were allegedly taken to the resort manager's office and her room was rented out, possibly contaminating the potential crime scene and any possible links to Claudia Kirschhoch's whereabouts. Her cellular phone disappeared, as did the log book that recorded the license plates of all vehicles passing in and out of the resort. The videotape from the surveillance camera near her room was inadvertently taped over. Throughout it all, Claudia's parents have had to endure a year in which many people on the island, including the media, portrayed Claudia as an adventure-seeker and party girl whose attraction to the local reggae and Rasta culture could have led to her disappearance.

In subsequent searches by the FBI, a hair of Claudia's was found in the back seat of Anthony Grant's white Toyota Corolla. A search dog hit on Claudia's scent in the trunk of the car, as well as on a pair of Grant's boots and gloves found at his home. A knife containing a small amount of blood was also found at Grant's home. DNA analysis taken from the boots and gloves were inconclusive, and the amount of blood on the knife was too small to test accurately. Anthony Grant was given a lie detector test but the results were deemed inconclusive. Though Anthony Grant is not considered a suspect in Claudia Kirschhoch's disappearance, the Kirschhoch's want Jamaican authorities to put more pressure on him as they believe he knows what happened to their daughter. They also want investigators to re-examine the role that Sandals employees played in the days following Claudia's disappearance.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Claudia Kirschhoch, please contact the FBI or call the Unsolved Mysteries hotline, 1-800-876-5353.