Wendy Aughe was a 29-year-old beauty school student and mother whose life ended under violent and unresolved circumstances in Bellingham, Washington. She was last seen in the early morning hours of April 25, 1987, after a date with a man who introduced himself as Mike Johnson and who later was identified as drifter Darren Dee O’Neall. When Wendy failed to pick up her eight-year-old daughter on April 26, a welfare check at her H Street home found pools of drying blood and blood spatter in her bedroom; Wendy was missing and her 1972 Ford Torino was gone.

The car was logged entering the United States from Canada at Oroville on the evening of April 26 and was later found abandoned in Eugene, Oregon. Investigators found O’Neall’s fingerprints on a Burger King box inside the vehicle and on the job application he had used at the restaurant. Decades later DNA from semen stains on bedsheets from Wendy’s apartment and a mixed DNA profile from a bloodstain on pants recovered from the trunk of her car linked O’Neall to the scene. No body was ever recovered.

Does anyone who knew Wendy, frequented La Paloma or the Lighthouse Mission in April 1987, or saw a 1972 Ford Torino in late April 1987 have information to share?