Kimberly L. Nelson was 21 when she vanished on or around October 31, 1983, from the Pacific Highway South area in Seattle, Washington, a stretch known as the Sea-Tac Strip. She had been at a bus stop near the Ben Carol Motel with a friend; the friend left briefly and when they returned Nelson was gone. She was originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan and had been staying in Seattle.

Partial skeletal remains found off Interstate 90 near North Bend in June 1986 were later identified as Nelson’s, confirming she did not survive. Her death became part of a pattern of killings and disappearances of women from the Seattle and Portland areas. Investigators eventually linked many of those victims to Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer. Ridgway admitted to Nelson’s killing, led authorities to other victims’ locations, and pleaded guilty to her murder as part of a plea agreement that carried life without parole.

Did anyone who knew Kimberly or who was in the Sea-Tac Strip area that Halloween remember seeing her or the bus stop near the Ben Carol Motel?