Amy Marie Yachimec was 13 when she was last seen at her family’s Phoenix apartment on November 6, 1981. She was described as white, with brown hair, blue eyes, pierced ears, about 5 feet 3 inches and 105 pounds, wearing a blue terrycloth short-sleeved shirt, maroon slacks and blue slip-on shoes, plus gold post earrings and a thin gold chain necklace. Around 10:30 p.m. a neighbor, 25-year-old Raymond Diaz, and his 20-year-old girlfriend reportedly arrived to take Amy to a party; she woke her 12-year-old sister and invited her to come, but the sister declined and Amy left with Diaz and his girlfriend. The three were later said to have been seen at Diaz’s cousin’s home, where the cousin reportedly rebuffed Diaz’s expressed sexual interest in Amy; Amy was never seen again.

Investigators revisited the case in 1988 and came to believe Amy had been killed and her body concealed in desert terrain; searches were conducted but her remains were not recovered. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office later treated the case as a homicide, and investigators emphasized the continuing need for information that could locate Amy. Her missing-person profile remains active in official databases.

Does anyone have information about Amy, where she might have been taken that night, or memories of seeing her around West Van Buren in November 1981?