Deborah Yvonne Wims, 31, disappeared from Seattle on October 25, 1990. She was last seen leaving her apartment to go to a supermarket at Pacific Highway South and South 216th Street. Her car was later found abandoned at the Safeway by that intersection. At the time she was described as a Black woman, 5 feet 6 inches, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown or hazel eyes, wearing a green bomber jacket and jeans.
Deborah led a transient life and sometimes worked in sex work. She used multiple aliases, including Terri Allen, Jasmine Davis, Tara Fleming, Deborah Yvonne Freeman, Shirley Jefferson, Janice Smith, and Deborah Evon or Yvonne Williams, and had lived in Las Vegas; San Francisco and Santa Ana, California; and Wichita, Kansas, as well as Seattle. Investigators suspected foul play and the King County Sheriff’s Office is handling the case.
Her disappearance has been considered in connection with the Green River Killer because her sister Cheryl Lee Wims, who vanished in May 1983, was later identified among his victims; Deborah’s and Cheryl’s pimps were brothers and Gary Leon Ridgway has denied involvement in Deborah’s case. What can readers who knew Deborah or her movements in 1990 add to help this investigation?