Christopher Brian Wells was 16 when he disappeared from his Seattle neighborhood on the evening of December 16, 1972. He had been with three friends at a grocery store on Admiral Way and left alone at about 9:30 p.m. for the two-block walk to his home in the 2300 block of 46th Avenue Southwest. He never arrived and was not heard from again.

Christopher was described as 5 feet 7 inches and 130 pounds, with blond shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a brown suede coat, a blue t-shirt, blue jeans, and a blue stocking cap. About six months after he vanished his parents began receiving silent phone calls two or three times a week; the calls continued after the family moved to Capitol Hill in 1975 and could not be traced.

The Seattle Police Department has kept the case file open. Christopher’s parents believed he had been the victim of foul play and had private suspicions about who might be responsible, but no suspects have been publicly named. If anyone knew Christopher, his routine that night, or saw him after he left the grocery store, please share what can help this long-unsolved case.