April Dawn Buttram was 17 when she left Spokane in May 1983 to live with her sister in Seattle and then vanished after leaving that residence. The last confirmed sighting was in August 1983 at a bus stop in the Rainier Valley. She had been arrested in July on suspicion of prostitution near the airport and did not appear for her scheduled court date. A man identifying himself as Jimmy phoned her mother in late 1983 claiming he had spoken with April in September, a call that only deepened the family’s uncertainty.

For years April’s disappearance remained unsolved and she was suspected to be one of the Green River Killer’s victims. In the fall of 2003 bone fragments found in a muddy bog near Snoqualmie Parkway were identified by DNA as April’s. Gary Ridgway later confessed and led investigators to remains; he pleaded guilty to aggravated first-degree murder in April Buttram’s case as part of a deal.

Did anyone in the Seattle area know April or her movements that summer of 1983?