Lucinda Cindy Schaefer was 16 when she vanished from Torrance, California, on June 24, 1979. She was walking home from a Christian youth meeting at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to the grandmother’s house where she had been staying but never arrived. Only one of her shoes was found on the roadside; family and friends searched and investigators conducted a thorough inquiry, but she was not heard from again.

Later in 1979 Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were arrested; they later confessed to abducting, raping, and killing Lucinda and said they had dumped her body in a remote gorge. Her remains have never been recovered. The pair went on to abduct and murder other young women that summer.

Does anyone have information about Lucinda’s last known movements or recalls seeing her after the youth meeting on June 24, 1979?