Kellie Marie Brownlee was 17 when she vanished after a trip to Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, Michigan. On May 20, 1982, she and her boyfriend took a bus to school but Kellie hitchhiked about five miles to the mall to fill out job applications. A friend’s mother saw her there around 11:00 a.m. and offered a ride; Kellie declined, saying she wanted to submit more applications. That was the last confirmed sighting.

Kellie was living with her boyfriend Mark Graves and his family in Walled Lake after moving out of her family’s West Bloomfield home. Friends said she had reported abuse by her stepfather, Paul Brownlee, and had shown bruises. She was described as about 5 feet 7 inches, 125–135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, double-pierced ears, a capped upper-left front tooth, and a slight heart murmur. Witnesses could not confirm whether she left the mall, entered a vehicle, or headed to a particular destination, and Mark was ruled out early as a suspect.

The case remained active decades later; in 2018 investigators looked into a possible connection with convicted killer Arthur Ream but found no evidence at a search site, and a close friend has said she doubts Ream’s involvement. Does anyone who knew Kellie or frequented Twelve Oaks in May 1982 have information that could help clarify what happened that day?