Joyce Henifer Klein was a 30-year-old woman from Manley Hot Springs who vanished on May 17, 1984, during a spasm of violence that struck the tiny Interior Alaska community. Several residents who drove out to the Tanana River landing that Thursday afternoon were never seen alive again; in the days that followed searchers found bodies downstream, and investigators concluded the disappearances were homicides.

The man suspected in the killings was a 25-year-old drifter named Michael Alan Silka, who had camped near the boat landing. On May 19, 1984, Alaska State Troopers confronted Silka on the Zitziana River; Trooper Troy L. Duncan was killed and troopers fatally returned fire, killing Silka. With the suspect dead, there was no arrest or trial.

Several victims’ bodies were recovered, but Joyce Klein’s remains were never found; she is remembered in memorial listings as a suspected homicide victim of Silka, taken from her community on May 17, 1984. Does anyone have information about Joyce, her family, or that day at the river?