On April 1, 1984, 17-year-old Michelle Lynn Korfman, a white female who had attended a Seventeen magazine cover model competition at the Meadows Mall in Las Vegas, left the event after a brief conversation with a man who identified himself as a fashion photographer. A photograph from the mall captured that man, Christopher Wilder, watching Michelle. She did not return home.

Michelle’s body was found on May 11, 1984, near a roadside rest stop in the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The autopsy showed she had been bound, gagged with duct tape, and asphyxiated when soil was forced into her larynx and trachea. Her remains were positively identified by dental X-rays in mid-June. Her car was later located in the Caesars Palace parking garage in Las Vegas.

Investigators linked the case to Christopher Wilder, who by then was a person of interest in multiple abductions and murders of young women nationwide and had been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Wilder was killed on April 13, 1984, when his own gun discharged during a struggle with police. Did anyone who knew Michelle at the Meadows Mall or saw her car in Las Vegas have information that was never made public?