Sharon Baldeagle was 12 when she ran away from home in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and disappeared on September 18, 1984. She and a 15-year-old friend were hitchhiking near Casper, Wyoming, when truck driver Royal Russell Long picked them up and took them to his Evansville, Wyoming, residence. According to the surviving girl, Long tied both girls at gunpoint; the friend escaped and called for help, but when police arrived both Long and Sharon were gone.

Long was arrested a week later in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He denied knowing Sharon’s whereabouts and told investigators he had driven her to Cheyenne and arranged for another driver to take her to Dallas, but authorities found no evidence for that claim. Long’s version of events conflicted with the survivor’s account. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and received two life terms. Long died of a heart attack in prison in 1993 and never revealed Sharon’s fate.

Sharon has never been found and her family continues to hope for answers. Does anyone have information about Sharon’s last known movements or contacts in Wyoming in September 1984?