Carol Ann Christensen was 21 and a registered member of the Blackfeet Tribe when she disappeared after leaving the Barn Door Tavern on Pacific Avenue South on May 2, 1983. She had finished lunch on her second day at the job and planned to return for the evening shift; she was never seen alive again. Her young daughter Sara and family were left without answers until a hunting party found Christensen’s remains on Mother’s Day, May 8, 1983, in woods near Southeast 244th Street and Highway 169 in Maple Valley.

Investigators determined she had been strangled and found no evidence of sexual assault. The scene was described as ritualistic: her body appeared to have been submerged, redressed with one shoe on the wrong foot, a bag over her head, two cleaned fish laid across her chest, raw sausage placed around her, and a wine bottle in her hand. A stone had been placed inside her, a detail later noted in connection with other victims. Semen recovered from her body matched Gary Ridgway’s DNA, and he was later indicted for her murder. Carol is buried at Sunset Memorial Park in Hoquiam, Washington.

Did anyone who knew Carol in 1983 or who spent time in that area have information that could add detail to her final movements that day?