Martina Authorlee was 18 when she vanished from the Seattle area. She was last seen May 22, 1983, along Pacific Highway South. Born in Fürth, Germany, while her father was stationed with the U.S. Army, she spent much of her youth in foster care in Washington. Her interests included roller skating, basketball, and swimming, and she had briefly joined the National Guard before a medical discharge.

Her mother reported her missing on January 30, 1984. Investigators linked her disappearance to a series of missing and murdered women in King County and officially associated her case with the Green River investigation in April 1984. Skeletal remains identified as Martina’s were found November 14, 1984, in woods off Highway 410 east of Enumclaw; the remains were too decomposed to determine a precise cause of death, but the death was classified as a homicide.

Did anyone who knew Martina or saw her along Pacific Highway South in May 1983 ever come forward with information?