Keli Kay McGinness, 18, disappeared from the Seattle area on the evening of June 28, 1983. She was last seen near the Three Bears Motel on Pacific Highway South wearing blue jeans, a tan short-sleeved sweater, a long camel-hair coat, and high heels. A mother to a young daughter who was in foster care, Keli had planned to pick up the child that day and not returning was described as highly uncharacteristic.

Authorities initially considered that she might have left on her own, since she had expressed a desire to leave life on the streets. Investigators later regarded foul play as more likely because she left her daughter behind. The case became linked to Gary Ridgway, who in 2003 confessed to killing her, saying he killed her the day she vanished and disposed of her body near Lake Fenwick. Ridgway led authorities to a location and at one point misidentified another victim’s remains as Keli’s, but her remains have never been recovered and no charge or conviction for her death was recorded.

Does anyone have information about Keli’s last known movements near the Three Bears Motel or about the area around Lake Fenwick in June 1983?