Kimberley Kay Kersey was 18 when she disappeared during a routine two-mile walk home from Mountain View High School in Vancouver, Washington, on the afternoon of March 11, 1987. She was last seen in the Hearthwood Boulevard area wearing a white University of Paris sweatshirt, a pink turtleneck, light blue jeans and white Keds. Kimberley planned to meet her boyfriend and travel to a basketball tournament in Tacoma but never arrived at the family home on the 13600 block of northeast 18th Street.

Her schoolbooks and papers were found the next day scattered in a wooded shortcut the family says Kimberley often used; bloodhounds tracked her scent a short distance from that spot before it disappeared. Investigators dismissed the idea she ran away because her engagement ring, money and driver’s license were left behind. Two primary suspects have been examined over the years, including Russell Francis Stenger, later imprisoned for the abduction and murder of another woman, and a man with a child molestation history who moved out of state, but no evidence has linked anyone definitively to Kimberley.

Her parents died without learning what happened; relatives continue to seek answers. If anyone knew Kimberley, saw her that afternoon, or remembers the Hearthwood Boulevard area on March 11, 1987, please come forward with information.