Fifteen-year-old Pamela Jean Bluemel disappeared after attending a dual wedding reception at the VFW Hall on Balsam Street in Lakewood on the evening of December 11, 1976. Eyewitnesses last saw her at the celebration; she failed to return home and was reported missing to the Lakewood Police Department. Initial thought was that she might have run away.

On August 18, 1977, remains of a young woman were found under a trailer behind the Top Notch Motel in Lakewood, less than a mile from where she was last seen. The body was badly decomposed and, after a two-week comparison of dental records and fingerprints, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the remains as Pamela Jean Bluemel. Coroners estimated she had been dead three to six months; the advanced decomposition prevented determination of an exact cause of death. The death was classified as a homicide, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been made. The case remains an active cold case with the Lakewood Police Department.

Did anyone at the VFW Hall that night or anyone who lived near Balsam Street or the Top Notch Motel remember seeing Pamela or anything unusual that evening?