Michelyn Joann Derning was 47 when her life ended in the summer of 1998. The daughter of a Marine Corps colonel, she grew up in a military family, graduated high school in Virginia, attended Palomar College in California and later worked as an executive secretary in San Diego. A marriage produced a son but later ended amid struggles with drugs that led to loss of custody.

Her body was discovered in Spokane, Washington on July 7, 1998. She was found nude and partly concealed by a hot tub cover. An autopsy showed a single gunshot wound to the head; a .25 caliber bullet casing was found still lodged in her hair. Her death was one of several unsolved murders of women in the Spokane area that investigators later linked together.

Does anyone have information about Michelyn’s life in Spokane or her movements in the weeks before July 7, 1998?