Kristen Modafferi was an 18-year-old student from North Carolina who vanished in San Francisco on June 23, 1997. She had recently moved to the Bay Area to study photography at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked at Spinelli’s Coffee in the Crocker Galleria. Kristen finished her shift around 3 p.m. and told coworkers she planned to visit Baker Beach, but she never returned to her roommates and was reported missing on June 25.

Surveillance captured Kristen leaving the Crocker Galleria, but investigators were unable to trace her movements after that. Several witnesses later said they saw her with an unidentified woman nearby, but those leads did not produce substantial breakthroughs. Searches of likely locations, including Baker Beach, turned up nothing. Her family came to San Francisco to help search and later hired private investigators, yet her whereabouts remain unknown and the case unsolved.

Was anyone in the area that afternoon aware of a young woman matching Kristen’s description or the unidentified woman reported by witnesses?