Brandy Myers was 13 when she disappeared in the Sunnyslope neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona, on May 26, 1992. She and a friend were going door-to-door collecting donations for Sunnyslope Elementary School’s Read-a-Thon. At about 8:00 p.m. the friend briefly entered a grocery store; when she returned, Brandy was gone. Brandy was last seen at the corner of 10th and Hatcher Streets wearing a green t-shirt, a denim skirt, white and pink Pro King high-top sneakers, and pink and yellow prescription glasses. She had scars on her cheek and upper left knee.

Searches by community members and police began immediately. The next day another teenager, 16-year-old Shannon Aumock, was found in the Central Arizona Project Canal, and investigators initially considered a possible connection because of the victims’ similar ages and proximity. Years later, attention turned in part to Bryan Patrick Miller, who lived a few doors from where Brandy was last seen. Miller’s ex-wife later said he confessed to murdering and dismembering a young girl who had knocked for a fundraiser, a description consistent with Brandy. Prosecutors declined to charge Miller in Brandy’s disappearance, citing insufficient evidence. Her body has never been found and the case remains open.