Jamie Grissim was 16 when she vanished while walking home from Fort Vancouver High School in Vancouver, Washington, on Tuesday, December 7, 1971. She was expected home between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., wearing blue hip-hugger jeans, a red and white striped blouse with puffy sleeves, and white tennis shoes she had decorated with drawings and the words peace and love. Jamie lived in a foster home with her sister; despite difficult circumstances she was described as a good student, a talented artist and writer, and a 4-H Club member.

An official missing person’s report was not filed until about a month after she disappeared because investigators initially treated the case as a runaway, a theory her family rejected. In May 1972 her purse, identification, and other personal items were found in woods in the Dole Valley area of northern Clark County, prompting authorities to suspect foul play. Investigators later identified convicted killer Warren Leslie Forrest as a person of interest; he has not been charged in Jamie’s case. A death certificate for Jamie was issued in March 2009, and her disappearance remains the oldest unsolved missing person case in Clark County.

Anyone who knew Jamie, her movements that day, or who has information about the Dole Valley area in late 1971 is asked to come forward.