Casey Joanna Brooks was 17 and a senior at Redwood High School when she was last seen on January 29, 2008. She had been accepted early to Bennington College to study journalism and environmental science and was carrying a heavy course load with advanced placement classes; her family said she’d been stressed about school. On the morning she disappeared she left home at 5:00 a.m. and surveillance footage on the Golden Gate Bridge shows her parking a Saab at the north end, walking onto the east sidewalk, smoking, climbing over the rail and jumping. A note left at home read The Saab is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge.

A multi‑agency search followed but her body was never recovered. Born Joanna Neilacna in Poland and adopted in July 1991, Casey had experienced emotional problems in middle school and had seen therapists; her family described the act as impulsive and said she had seemed calmer the year before. A memorial bench overlooks Richardson Bay and her family later advocated for a suicide barrier on the bridge.

Did anyone who knew Casey in Tiburon or at Redwood remember changes in her behavior in the months before January 2008?