In the summer of 1981, 14-year-old Carla Kaylene Owens vanished after being dropped off to babysit an infant at a trailer near Kalaloch, Washington. She reportedly left her family home in Kalaloch on June 30 to care for the child over the Independence Day weekend. A transient logger named Kenneth Barry drove her to the job, accompanied by the baby’s mother, Katherine Tangan; Barry and Tangan went to a Forks bar that evening and that was the last confirmed time Carla was seen.

When the baby’s mother returned later she found the infant alone, the living room floor stained with blood, and a broken, blood-spattered Galliano bottle. A note suggested Carla had returned home, so her family did not report her missing for four days. Investigators later found bloodstains and Galliano glass fragments in Barry’s pickup; the blood type matched Carla’s but DNA testing was not available in 1981. A witness said Barry was seen digging with a wrapped bundle in his truck, but searches turned up nothing. Barry was never charged and died in 1987.

The case was officially reopened in 2007 and a wooded-area search took place in 2008, but no trace of Carla has been found and foul play is suspected. If anyone knew Carla, the people she stayed with, or saw activity in the Kalaloch/Forks area that weekend, please come forward with information.