Christine Ann Civille was 31 when she was last seen on a snowy Christmas Eve, December 24, 1983, in Conway, Washington. She lived on a houseboat on the Skagit River and that evening was in a small boat with her boyfriend on the North Fork, headed toward their houseboat near Fish Town. Reports say the outboard motor froze and she was put off on a sandbar near the end of Landing Road in temperatures between 0 and 10 degrees.

Christine was wearing a blue down-hooded jacket, green wool overall pants, unbleached wool sweaters, rubber Iron Duke boots with lug soles, and eyeglasses with silver wire rims. She was expected to walk to her car and drive to a home in LaConner, but she never arrived. Search and rescue teams were deployed and some of her personal items, including her car keys, were found in the area where she was last seen, suggesting she did not get far from the riverbank.

The Skagit County Sheriff’s Office lists the disappearance as unsolved and has kept the investigation open; her DNA is on file for comparison if new evidence appears. Few details are available about what happened after she was left on the sandbar, and no proven circumstances explain her disappearance. Did anyone in the area that night see Christine walking away from the riverbank or notice anything unusual around Landing Road or Fish Town?