Shaina Ashley Kirkpatrick, age two in April 2001, vanished along with her two-month-old sister Shausha Latine Henson after leaving Portland, Oregon, with their mother Kimyala Henson and two others for what was described as a trip to Canada. On April 4, 2001 the group traveled as far as Sacramento, where Kimyala obtained a copy of her birth certificate. The children were last seen with their mother that day.

On April 20, 2001 Christina Noel Mayer and Frank Lee Oehring were found dead in a Florida rest stop in an apparent murder-suicide; Kimyala’s wallet, credit cards and her torn birth certificate were in their car along with a diaper bag but no children or car seats. Kimyala’s body was recovered April 28 near Pyramid Lake, Nevada, having been bludgeoned with a hatchet and shot. Ballistics and a bloodstained hatchet linked the couple to Kimyala’s killing, but no trace of Shaina or Shausha has been found despite searches and multi-state investigation.

Did anyone in Portland or along the route in April 2001 see the children or the family together after April 4?