Fourteen-year-old Lindsey Nicholls was last seen on August 2, 1993, walking along Royston Road in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, where she had planned to meet friends for the Comox Nautical Days Festival. That morning she left a Royston foster home after a disagreement at about 10:30 a.m., telling the foster mother she was going to Courtenay; she may have been hitchhiking. Lindsey was five feet three inches and about 110–115 pounds, with green eyes and shoulder-length blonde hair dyed with red henna. She wore a pink and blue plaid shirt over a khaki-coloured silk tank top, blue jeans and white Esprit canvas-style deck runners.

Lindsey had previously run away in April 1993 but left personal belongings behind this time, and friends reported no plans for her to leave. Investigators have treated the case as a suspected homicide; police have followed more than 400 tips, conducted numerous interviews and polygraphs and excavated multiple sites without a public breakthrough. Lindsey’s mother, Judy Peterson, helped win legislation known as Lindsey’s Law expanding Canada’s National DNA Databank.

Does anyone who lived in Royston or Courtenay in 1993 remember seeing Lindsey that day or know someone who might have information?