Marie Ann Blee was 15 and a high school sophomore from Hayden, Colorado, when she vanished after attending a 4-H dance in Craig on November 21, 1979. She went with an 18-year-old friend, Marty Dean Doolin, then to a party at Shadow Mountain Village mobile home park. Some female companions left that party early because they felt uncomfortable with older men and drug use; Marie chose to stay.

Doolin says he last saw Marie between 1:30 and 2:00 a.m., and she told him she had arranged a ride back to Hayden with someone else. Other witnesses later placed her at a Craig store in the early morning hours. Her parents reported her missing when she failed to return; police initially treated the case as a runaway, a finding her family disputed. A week later Doolin was arrested for extortion after demanding a $5,000 ransom; he pleaded guilty to telephone harassment and has denied involvement in her disappearance.

The case was reopened in 1999. Several people have been named as persons of interest, including Max Abel Garcia and Stephen Steve Skufca; Skufca died in 2012. Despite searches and interviews over decades, Marie has not been found and foul play is suspected. Did anyone who attended the Craig dance or the Shadow Mountain Village party remember seeing Marie that night or know who might have driven her toward Hayden?