Stefanie Kelly Stroh, 20, vanished on October 15, 1987, while hitchhiking across the United States during a year off from Reed College. Her trip had taken her through Asia for nine months before she began a cross-country leg from New York toward California. The last confirmed contact came from a phone call to her parents placed from the Four Way Cafe and Truck Stop in Wells, Nevada; she said she had a ride and expected to be home the next day but never arrived.

At disappearance Stefanie carried a light gray canvas suitcase, a pink purse, and an orange sleeping bag. She was last seen wearing a black tank top, a black shirt with elbow-length sleeves, black corduroy pants, and brown leather ankle-high shoes. Years later Texas death row inmate Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to killing her, claiming he picked her up while hitchhiking, took LSD with her, strangled her, and buried her in cement in a hot spring. Authorities were unable to corroborate that confession, expressed doubts about its credibility, and never charged him. Stefanie’s body has not been found and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone see Stefanie in Nevada or on the highway between Wells and Reno in October 1987, or have information about the ride she mentioned to her parents?