Georgia Lee Moses was 12 when she disappeared from Santa Rosa, California, on August 13, 1997. That afternoon she and a friend were together when Georgia received a page and called the number back. Later they walked to a nearby gas station at Sebastopol Road and Dutton Avenue, and Georgia left with an unidentified man. That was the last confirmed sighting.

A little over a week later a Caltrans worker repairing a guardrail off Highway 101 in Petaluma found Georgia’s body in a grove of trees. Family members describe Georgia as someone who cared for her younger sister and had taken on responsibilities at home while their mother was ill. Her death is described as preventable, and the case remains unsolved more than 20 years later.

What happened to Georgia that night, and who was the man she left with?