Chalisa Lewis was 14 and an eighth-grader at Bremerton Junior High when she vanished on the afternoon of February 2, 1995. She got off the school bus about 3:00 p.m. at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue and walked toward her grandmother’s house, where she lived with her mother. Her backpack was later found at the residence, but there were no signs of a struggle.

Searches by police and the FBI included interviews with friends, relatives and neighbors and the use of search dogs, which lost her scent quickly — a detail investigators interpreted to mean she likely entered a vehicle. Several people were given polygraph tests and detectives at one point had a person of interest, but no arrest was made.

On February 23, 1995, a passerby found Chalisa’s partially clothed body washed ashore below the bluffs of Discovery Park in Seattle; the King County Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death homicide by saltwater drowning. The case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Chalisa, her routines, or saw anything on February 2 that might help, please come forward.