On a January night in 1984 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, 18-year-old Priscilla Lee Yazza was abducted from her family home and found dead the next morning in a nearby gully. Priscilla was home with her mother, Aliene Lee, and her 3-month-old daughter, Samantha, when the lights went out and an armed intruder entered. The assailant shot Aliene twice in the head; she survived. Priscilla was taken, sexually assaulted multiple times, and later found naked with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Investigators reported signs she had struggled and attempted to flee at least three times.

The investigation was complicated by jurisdictional confusion among the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Navajo Tribal Police, and Aliene Lee later said she believed evidence had been destroyed and leads were not pursued. No arrests have ever been made in connection with Priscilla’s abduction and murder. Did anyone in the Fort Defiance area at that time witness unusual activity or have information about who the intruder might have been?