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Shauna Maynard was 17 when her body was found in a remote desert area off Blue Diamond Road, south of Las Vegas, on Tuesday morning, April 21, 1998. Two men driving to work discovered her about 6 a.m.; investigators determined she had been shot multiple times, including once in the face, and had been pistol-whipped.

Shauna had been reported a runaway from Colton, California, on December 31, 1997, and had moved to Las Vegas. She lived transiently—first with a male friend, then in a crowded apartment near Lake Mead and Las Vegas Boulevard where she worked at a restaurant and babysat. Around 2 a.m. the morning she died, she called a friend in tears saying a roommate was going to hurt her; she did not arrive at the casino her friend tried to summon. When police later searched her apartment, her personal belongings were missing. Roommates say they were asleep when she left.

No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Investigators followed leads including a sighting of a man and woman in a parked 1950s-era brown Ford or Chevy pickup with rounded fenders near where the body was found. If anyone knew Shauna, her movements in Las Vegas, or saw that pickup, please share what was seen.