Gail Lynn Mathews was 23 when she disappeared from the Seattle area on April 10, 1983. After separating from her husband, with whom she shared a daughter, she was living transiently and spent the last evening she was seen at a tavern near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Her companion left that night to try his luck at a poker game; Mathews stayed behind intending to work to earn money for their motel room.

In September 1983 skeletal remains identified as Mathews were found near Star Lake, east of Federal Way, confirming her death. Her case became one of several linked to a pattern of killings in King County during the 1980s. In 2001 DNA evidence led to the arrest of Gary Leon Ridgway, who later confessed to many of the slayings and admitted to Mathews’s murder. In November 2003 Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder.

Did anyone who knew Gail in 1983 — where she worked, stayed or socialized — see or hear anything that could still help clarify her last hours?