Kristina Diane Nelson was 21 when she and her 18-year-old stepsister Jacqueline Brandy Miller left Kristina’s apartment in Lewiston, Idaho, for a short walk to a nearby grocery store on the evening of September 12, 1982. Both worked as janitors at the Lewiston Civic Theatre; Kristina was an aspiring artist and student at Lewis-Clark State College and left a note for her boyfriend saying they would be back soon. That night was the last time anyone saw them.

Their remains were recovered on March 19, 1984, on a remote hillside near Kendrick, Idaho, about 40 miles from where they disappeared. Investigators determined both women had been murdered, though a specific cause of death for Kristina could not be established. The distance and location suggested a violent abduction rather than a disappearance along their intended route.

Police noted a pattern of other Lewiston-area disappearances and murders connected to the same night; a 35-year-old acquaintance and theater janitor, Steven Pearsall, also went missing that evening after being dropped off at the theater and has never been found. Authorities have long focused on a theater employee who was present that night and had links to other local cases, and DNA testing has been used in cold case work, but no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Kristina or Brandy have information about their last evening at the theater or who might have taken them?