Eight-year-old Rima Traxler disappeared on the afternoon of May 15, 1985, while walking home from St. Helen’s Elementary School in Longview, Washington. She was last seen two blocks from her house after stopping to show a neighbor an art project. Rima was 4 feet 3 inches, about 45 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and was dressed in a pink shirt, a tan-plaid skirt and a knee-length coat.

Early inquiries named a close family friend, Joseph Kondro, as someone questioned, but the case went cold for years. Rima’s family used a secret emergency password, Unicorn, and campaigned publicly for leads; her image also appeared on milk cartons. In 1999 Kondro confessed that he had used the Unicorn password to lure Rima, taken her to a swimming hole on Germany Creek, strangled her and buried her in a shallow grave. Searches of the area Kondro indicated did not recover her remains.

Kondro was later sentenced to 55 years in prison and died in 2012. Rima’s body has never been found. Did anyone in Longview at the time see Rima on May 15, 1985, or have information about Germany Creek that could help locate her remains?