Debra Sloan, 42, was found nude off a rural roadside near Laytonville after Mendocino County road workers discovered her body on November 30, 1998, in the days after Thanksgiving weekend. Investigators determined she had been killed shortly before the discovery. Reports say she had recently met a man in the area and left with him after sitting beside a stranger in a local bar.

Detectives focused on 41-year-old Fort Bragg mill worker John Annibel, whom witnesses placed with Sloan over the holiday weekend. Mendocino County authorities arrested Annibel on December 4, 1998, and charged him with her murder.

Annibel was later convicted in Mendocino County Superior Court; reporting notes a sentence of 25 years to life and that he remains incarcerated in a California state prison. He was also questioned in earlier Northern California matters from 1976 and 1980 but was not charged in those cases. If anyone knew Debra Sloan, saw her that weekend, or has information about her movements or the man she left with, please come forward.