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Wendy Stephens was 14 when she vanished from her Denver, Colorado home in the summer of 1983. Her remains were recovered on March 21, 1984, in a wooded area near a baseball field in what is now SeaTac, Washington; for years she was one of the unidentified victims from those recoveries known as Bones 10.

Her case was later linked to the Green River killings. Gary Ridgway, who preyed on vulnerable young women in the Seattle area during the 1980s and later pleaded guilty to the murders of many victims, was connected to this case. Forensic anthropologists and the DNA Doe Project used genetic genealogy to identify Bones 10 as Wendy Stephens; the identification was announced in 2021, and Wendy is believed to have been Ridgway’s youngest victim.

The identification gave Wendy’s family a name for the girl who had been missing for decades. Does anyone have memories or information about Wendy’s life in Denver or her movements in 1983?