Susan Seymour Adams, 42, of Austin, Texas, vanished on September 30, 1990, while on a planned hunting and camping trip with her husband, Tom, and others in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness near Battle Lake, Idaho. The couple had arrived in the area on September 22. On the morning she disappeared Susan left camp at about 9:00 a.m. to go bird-watching in a nearby meadow carrying only a camera and binoculars and did not return.

Tom followed her tracks from the campsite to a point roughly 20 yards from the meadow where the prints ended abruptly. Extensive searches on foot and by teams were conducted through rugged terrain and bad weather but turned up no trace; a second search in 1991 also found nothing. In July 1991 a judge officially declared Susan dead. It remains unclear what happened after her tracks stopped—whether she became lost, was injured, or suffered some other fate.

If anyone was in the Battle Lake area in late September 1990 or has information about Susan’s movements that day, please share what is known.