Valarie Lynn Sloan was 18 when she vanished from Peoria, Illinois, on September 30, 1993. She had brown, shoulder-length hair and hazel eyes, stood between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 6 inches, and weighed about 120 to 130 pounds. She was also known at times by the last name Stenstrom.

Reports say she was last seen in Peoria that late-September day and has not been seen or heard from since. The investigation drew renewed attention after convicted serial killer Joseph Miller, guilty of five murders, confessed in 2004 to killing Valarie and gave a specific claim that he buried her in a shallow grave near a road construction site on War Memorial Drive that was being widened then. Authorities have not charged Miller in Valarie’s disappearance, and some investigators question the credibility of his statements because of a documented history of lying to police.

Valarie’s case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Valarie, her whereabouts in 1993, or has information about War Memorial Drive during that construction, please come forward.