Christina Lee White, called Chrissy by family, was 12 when she vanished from Asotin, Washington, on April 28, 1979. She was at the Asotin County Fair that day, had ridden there on a new white 10-speed Schwinn with a front basket and distinctive three-inch wing nuts on the front wheels, and called her mother about 2:30 p.m. from a friend’s house saying she felt ill from the heat. Clothing reports describe blue jeans, red leather tennis shoes, and possibly a tan and pink striped shirt. Friends’ accounts differ on the last sighting; some placed her at the fairgrounds as late as 10:30 p.m. and believed she was heading home.

Weeks after Christina disappeared, some of her school papers were found scattered on a farm outside Asotin. Investigators do not believe she ran away. Her disappearance was later examined alongside a string of unsolved cases in the Lewis-Clark Valley from 1979 to 1982 and is considered potentially linked to the 1981 murder of Kristin David and other missing and murdered young people from the area. The investigation’s focus shifted over time from the fairgrounds to the friend’s home after a connection emerged between that location and a person of interest in later disappearances. Does anyone have memories of Chrissy, her bicycle, or the fair that spring day?