On February 7, 1983, 17-year-old Cathryn Tighe, a junior at Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, disappeared after classes. She had arranged a ride with a friend but never showed up at the agreed meeting spot, and no witnesses reported seeing anything suspicious that afternoon. Her family’s concern turned to tragedy when a man collecting cans found her partially clothed body under a bush in a desert lot near Boulder Highway on the morning of March 2, 1983.

The Clark County Coroner determined Cathryn had been sexually assaulted and killed by manual strangulation, and investigators concluded she was likely killed within a couple of hours of being abducted. Detectives struggled with very little physical evidence; the case went cold despite years of work. Names that surfaced later as persons of interest included Herbert James Coddington and Johnny Blake Peterson, but neither was linked definitively to Cathryn’s murder and no one has been charged.

Does anyone have memories of Cathryn, her route home from school, or the Boulder Highway area in early 1983 that could help revive leads?