Jeannette Kamahele was 20 and a student at Santa Rosa Junior College when she disappeared from Cotati, California. She left her residence about 9:30 a.m. on April 25, 1972, intending to hitchhike to school. A witness saw her climb into a faded brown Chevrolet pickup, likely an early 1950s model, driven by a Caucasian man in his 20s or 30s with an Afro-style haircut. Jeannette never made it to school and has not been heard from since.

Her disappearance is linked with a series of vanishings of young women in the Santa Rosa area in that era, often referred to as the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. Unlike several other victims in that series, Jeannette’s body was never recovered. She had a distinctive birthmark under her right breast and wore a dental bridge. Her family has sought answers for decades, and some investigators have speculated she may have been taken by a serial offender active in the area then.

If anyone knew Jeannette, remembers seeing her that morning, or has information about a faded brown pickup from that time, please come forward.