Looks like another case of they know who did it but they can't prove it. I wondert why it took a week for the family to report her missing....I figure I would be hyper aware of my family member especially if they had a mind of a 10 yr old. How very sad. Yet another person that 'slipped through the cracks'. The system is so broken. I wish there was a solid fix for this without stripping away a persons rights. Just sad.

Kristi Lynn Nikle was 19 when she was last seen in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on October 2, 1996. She had a mild intellectual disability described as giving her the cognitive abilities of a ten-year-old, but she was socially independent and well-liked. On the night she disappeared she reportedly attended a bingo game and won a significant amount of money; she never returned home and her family reported her missing about a week later.

Investigators initially considered the possibility she left voluntarily, but the case later shifted toward foul play. Attention focused on convicted criminal Floyd Todd Tapson, who was known to target women with developmental disabilities and was in the area around the time Kristi vanished. Kristi had mentioned a boyfriend named Todd, and there were reports of Tapson being seen with her after she disappeared; Tapson has denied involvement. In 2022 authorities conducted an excavation at a Grand Forks construction site based on a tip but found nothing. The case remains active and unsolved.

If anyone knew Kristi, her movements that week, or saw her after October 2, 1996, please share information that could help investigators.