Alisa Francine Watson, known as Lisa, was 14 when she was last seen on January 1, 1972, after leaving her family’s home in Tacoma, Washington. She was described as 5 feet 2 inches, about 115 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Reports indicate she may have been living in an apartment in the Seattle area around the time she disappeared, and some described her as a troubled child who left home prior to vanishing.

Communication with Alisa stopped entirely after 1972 and her family reported her missing decades later; the report to the agency was filed March 19, 2012. The King County Sheriff’s Office is listed as the investigating agency, with Sgt. Jesse Anderson as the contact. Her case appears in national missing-person databases under NamUs MP14225 and NCMEC case 1191986.

Does anyone have memories of Alisa from Tacoma or Seattle in the early 1970s, or information about where she might have lived after leaving home?