A deputy checking a known dumping area off Bethel Road in Comanche County found the body of 21-year-old Mandy Ann Raite in a small creek in the early morning hours of June 17, 2000. Mandy, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was discovered nude and had been missing for about three days; investigators believe her body may have been in the water for at least four days. The initial cause of death was listed as an accidental cocaine overdose, but the case is considered a homicide. No obvious outward trauma was reported and no other physical evidence was recovered at the scene.

Mandy was a mother who had struggled with drug addiction and was known to work as a prostitute in the Cache Road area, though people close to her said she was trying to turn her life around and had been in daily contact with her mother until just before she disappeared.

Mandy’s death remains unsolved and is believed to be linked to a series of unsolved killings of women in the Lawton area between 1999 and 2003, several involving women found nude in or near water. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation continues to handle the inquiry. Does anyone have information about Mandy’s last known movements or the missing personal items that could help this investigation?