Shawnda Leea Summers, a 17-year-old Black female, was last seen near Yesler Way in Seattle on October 9, 1982. Her whereabouts were unknown for nearly a year. On August 11, 1983, her remains were found at the base of an apple tree in a vacant lot near South 146th Street and 22nd Avenue South, just north of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Her death was later linked to a series of disappearances and murders in King County attributed to the Green River Killer. Advances in DNA technology and subsequent investigative work connected a suspect to those murders; that suspect was arrested on November 30, 2001, and later pleaded guilty in 2003 to multiple counts of aggravated first-degree murder, including the killing of Shawnda Summers. The guilty plea resulted in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Does anyone have memories of the Seattle neighborhoods Shawnda was last seen in or information that might shed light on her life in 1982?