Joan Leigh Hall, 17, vanished from Warrenton, Oregon on September 30, 1983. She was last seen at about 2:00 p.m. at the Warrenton Mini-Mart after getting a ride from a friend; she planned to buy a soda and walk the half-mile to Warrenton Grade School to help her aunt, a teacher, but never arrived. At the time she was wearing a green hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, a blue jacket, maroon and white sneakers, and carrying a blue and white backpack and a brown purse.

Known as Joanie, she was a senior at Warrenton High School and had just been elected the first female president of the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Department’s Explorer Post. Family described her as reliable and responsible with a good relationship with her parents and no indication she would run away. Searches, interviews and tips, including from psychics, produced no sign of her, and some witnesses’ accounts reportedly changed over time. Her parents died in 1994 without learning what happened; her siblings continue to seek answers.

Anyone who was in Warrenton on September 30, 1983, or who has information about Joan’s movements that day is asked to come forward.