Christine Marie Honson was 32 and a member of the Sault Tribe when she disappeared from the Grand Rapids, Michigan area in the autumn of 1974. At the time she lived in Petoskey with her husband and their three children; the marriage was reportedly troubled and she sometimes left home for short periods but always returned. In September 1974 she left after an argument; some of her suitcases were later found in the family’s backyard and her husband filed a missing person report after taking the bags to a relative in Grand Rapids.

Christine last saw her sisters in Grand Rapids that summer and spoke by phone to a sister and a sister-in-law in the fall saying she planned to visit, but she never arrived and her family never heard from her again.

In July 1986 Nicholas Brasic Jr. was convicted of the rape and first-degree murder of Christine Honson and sentenced to life in prison; Christine’s body has not been recovered. No activity has been recorded on her Social Security number since the summer of 1974 and she never renewed her driver’s license.