Kimberly Kay Kersey, 18, vanished during a two-mile walk home from Mountain View High School in Vancouver, Washington, on the afternoon of March 11, 1987. School had let out early and she was planning to attend a basketball tournament in Tacoma that evening; that day she wore a white sweatshirt reading University of Paris, a pink turtleneck, light blue jeans and white Keds. Kimberly sometimes rode home with others but that afternoon she walked a familiar route across Mill Plain Boulevard near the site of the former Evergreen Airport.

When she did not return the next day, her mother searched nearby woods along a shortcut Kimberly often used and found the student’s schoolbooks and papers scattered on a path. Several notebook pages appeared torn out, and investigators treated the disappearance as suspicious. Authorities have identified at least two primary persons of interest over the years, including Russell Francis Stenger and a man with a history of child molestation who lived two blocks from where Kimberly is believed to have been taken, but no definitive link has been established. Kimberly’s siblings continue to seek answers.

If anyone remembers Kimberly, her route that afternoon, or saw anything suspicious near Mill Plain Boulevard on March 11, 1987, please come forward.