Lou Ellen Burleigh was 21 when she vanished after leaving her Walnut Creek home for what she believed was a job interview on September 11, 1977. Her car was found abandoned in Pleasant Hill and she did not return home. The case went cold for decades as investigators searched without success.

Investigators later linked Roger Kibbe, known as the I-5 Strangler, to her disappearance. While in custody for another killing, Kibbe confessed to kidnapping Burleigh, binding her, driving her to Lake Berryessa, raping and murdering her, and leaving her body in a dry riverbed near the lake. Multiple searches in 2003 and 2007 failed to locate her remains.

A breakthrough came in 2011 when a Napa County deputy reviewed old notes and maps and found a bone fragment in a small creek near Lake Berryessa. Forensic testing confirmed the fragment belonged to Burleigh, finally identifying her remains after 34 years. Does anyone have additional information about Lou Ellen Burleigh’s last known movements or the Pleasant Hill area that day?