Lyn Marie Ohana, also known as Marilyn Marie Carter, was 49 when she disappeared from Port Townsend, Washington, on the evening of December 8, 2005. She left the home she shared with her mother in the 1400 block of Monroe Street at about 6:00 p.m., telling her mother she would return and asking that the porch light be left on. That evening was out of character; Lyn rarely went out after dark and did not drive, relying on public transit.

She was last seen on foot, possibly carrying a small backpack and wearing a dark-blue mid-length winter coat and wire-framed eyeglasses. Her wallet, debit and credit cards, cash, a pull-cart she usually used, and other personal items remained at home. A private investigator’s scent-tracking dog followed her trail from the house to the area of the former Golden Age Club near Chetzemoka Park, where the scent stopped, suggesting she may have entered a vehicle. Police reported no evidence of foul play; bank accounts showed no activity and library computer checks found nothing. Lyn was 5 feet 4 inches, about 105 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, several scars on the inside of one elbow, and slightly protruding upper incisors.

Her family describe that evening as peculiar and out of character. If anyone in Port Townsend that night remembers seeing Lyn or noticed a vehicle near Chetzemoka Park, please come forward with information.