Jennifer Ann Joseph was 16 when her decomposed body was found by two farmers on August 26, 1997, in a field in the foothills of Mt. Spokane, Washington. She had been shot in the head. Reports say she had arrived in Spokane about a month before her death and was last seen getting into a white Corvette that sped down East Sprague, Spokane’s red-light district.

Originally from Tacoma, Jennifer had dropped out of high school after her parents’ divorce and left home. In the months before her death she drifted between San Francisco, Portland, and Spokane and became involved with drugs and prostitution.

Investigators traced a 1977 Corvette previously owned by Robert Lee Yates Jr. Forensic tests on the car reportedly matched blood to Jennifer, and carpet fibers and a mother-of-pearl button linked her to the vehicle. On April 18, 2000, Robert Lee Yates Jr. was arrested for Jennifer’s murder.

If anyone knew Jennifer, saw her in Spokane in July or August 1997, or has information about the white Corvette, please share what is known.