Cherene Anne Alizio was 32 when she vanished from the Victoria Clipper ferry on March 23, 2003, while returning from Victoria, British Columbia, to Seattle. Surveillance video from the vessel shows her on the trip wearing a red sweater, medium-colored pants that may have been jeans, and carrying a black and blue jacket. She had brown, curly, shoulder-length hair, hazel eyes and pierced ears.

Cherene failed to disembark when the ferry docked in Seattle and her backpack was found aboard containing her passport and identification. The Seattle Police Department opened a missing person case on March 24, 2003. The circumstances—personal items left on the vessel and no confirmed sighting after the crossing—made this a high-risk disappearance, and investigators have not publicly released information about witnesses or suspects.

The available details do not establish whether Cherene’s disappearance was an accident, the result of foul play, or due to other causes. Anyone who travelled on that Victoria Clipper run or who has information about Cherene that could help investigators is asked to come forward.