Pammy Annette Avent was 16 when she walked away from her family’s home in Seattle on October 26, 1983, and did not return. For two decades her family kept her listed as missing; her mother Velma Harris recalled showing her news clippings about the Green River Killer and Pammy telling her not to worry she wouldn’t become one of his victims.

Pammy was one of seven women long suspected to be missing victims connected to the Green River killings. In 2001 investigators arrested Gary Ridgway; in June 2003 he reached a plea agreement that included confessing and leading detectives to missing victims. In August 2003 Ridgway guided detectives to a wooded site near Enumclaw, where skeletal remains identified by dental records as Pammy Avent were recovered.

Ridgway later pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated first-degree murder, including Pammy’s. Does anyone have memories of Pammy or information about her life in Seattle before October 1983?