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On April 26, 2013, 25-year-old Jessica Heeringa disappeared while working the late shift alone at an Exxon station in Norton Shores, Michigan. A customer arrived at 11:07 p.m. to find the station unattended. Jessica’s purse with more than $400 in cash, her coat, and her car were left behind, and a small drop of her blood was found near the back door, suggesting a struggle and that robbery was not the motive. There were no security cameras at the station; witnesses had reported a man in a silver minivan who had been flirting with her earlier that evening.

A breakthrough came in 2016 after a 16-year-old escaped from a silver minivan, which led investigators to Jeffrey Willis. Searches of his van and computer produced material linking him to Jessica, and parts of a firearm at the gas station matched a gun found in his vehicle. In May 2018 a jury convicted Willis of kidnapping and first-degree murder; he received life without parole. Willis’s cousin, Kevin Bluhm, later admitted helping dispose of Jessica’s body but gave inconsistent locations and her remains have not been recovered.

Does anyone have information about Jessica’s last night at the station or about the silver minivan seen in Norton Shores?