Seventeen-year-old William Michael Christian, known as Mike, was last seen in Anchorage on the evening of November 3, 1966. After leaving his parents’ home on North Star Road he ran errands, went to a drive-in movie, and called his girlfriend afterward saying he planned to wash his 1963 Chevrolet Impala and attend a car club meeting. He never returned; his Impala was found abandoned the next day and his parents reported him missing.

In 1974 a former classmate, James Ronald Ethridge, told Spokane police that another classmate, Roger Padie, had arranged to meet Christian on Sand Lake Road that night. Ethridge said Padie produced a .22 pistol, shot Christian in the head during a struggle, shot him again after he fell, placed the body in his trunk, then — after getting a flat tire — involved Ethridge and Arthur Melickian in burying the body near Eagle River. Anchorage police reopened the case and Padie was arrested in May 1975. After a mistrial he pleaded no contest to manslaughter and received a 15-year sentence.

Padie showed authorities the area he said was the burial site, but an extensive search failed to recover Christian’s remains, which remain missing. Does anyone have information about Mike, the 1963 Impala, or that stretch near Eagle River from the 1966–1975 period?