Women With Car Troubles Go Missing: The Cases of Robin Graham, Kelly Dae Wilson, Cindy Lee Mellin, and More

By: Shane Lambert

Robin Graham disappeared in the early hours of the morning on November 14th, 1970. She was driving home from her place of employment, Pier 1 at 5711 Hollywood Boulevard, when something went wrong with her vehicle (employment address as per a landing page for her at Ancestry.com). For those interested in tracing her route, I think she was traveling to 2227 Lemoyne Street in Los Angeles. 

Her disappearance is noteworthy for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, it caused the LAPD to enact a policy change. A police officer saw her in the minutes before she disappeared, but he left her alone. After her disappearance, police officers were required to stay with stranded female motorists.

Secondly, her disappearance and probable murder can be compared to other disappearances of women where some kind of vehicle mishap is part of the chain of events surrounding the disappearance.

Robin Graham

Robin Ann Graham's details:

Last seen: About 2:30am on November 14th, 1970
Born: June 22nd, 1952 (18 years old at the time of disappearance)
Physical: white female, 66" (5'6") and 125 pounds, brown eyes and hair
Clothing/accessories: red blouse, blue jeans, dark-blue corduroy jacket, red-clog shoes, and leather purse

NamUs' description of the event (paraphrased):

A California Highway Patrol officer was the last person to see Robin Graham on November 14th, 1970. She had been driving her boyfriend's vehicle when she apparently ran out of gas and stalled on U.S. Highway 101 southbound near the Santa Monica Boulevard offramp at about 2:00 am.

The officer stopped to see if she needed help, but Ms. Graham said that help was already coming. She had just called her parents to inform them of her situation.

Later, the officer noticed a white male, 25-26 years of age, 5'8" with dark hair, wearing bell-bottom trousers and a white turtle neck top talking to her. A 1958-1960 light blue Corvette hardtop was observed parked behind her vehicle at this time. The officer later assumed the man in the Corvette was the help she had called for. The next day, her parents searched for Robin and found her car, locked up and abandoned on the side of the freeway where she was last seen. She hasn't been heard from since. 

Inconsistency regarding man's description

The description of the man may or may not be entirely accurate with NamUS. The following (left margin below) is excerpted from the Nov. 19th, 1970 Valley News (Van Nuys, California) regarding the patrolman's description. It describes a "blond-haired man" instead of a dark-haired one. The range of dates for the Corvette is also a little off between the two sources (ie. NamUs is 1958 to 1960 while the article says '57 to '59). I found a 1960 light-blue Corvette convertible picture and posted it below. When it comes to contradictions between NamUs and media sources, there's no way to know who to show a preference for. Certainly, both the media and NamUs can be error-riddled.

1960 Chevrolet Corvette Fuelie
 (Creative Commons/Rex Gray on Flickr) - Not a car expert;
If you can suggest a better photo, then it's welcome.

NamUs wrong about the time of parents discovering vehicle

The penultimate statement in the NamUs description above may be incorrect or confusing. According to the newspaper articles I read from 1970 her parents did not discover her car "The next day" but rather they discovered it at 2:30am, a half-hour after she was last seen. See the snipping below from The Capital Journal (December 12th, 1970/page 11).

The same article discusses the change in police procedures when it came to stranded female motorists. 

The Robin Graham case may not simply be a case of a criminal taking advantage of an opportunity where he finds a young woman vulnerable. Women who meet an abductor after car trouble may actually have had their car tampered with by the actual abductor. Graham ran out of gas and it's possible that the gas may have been siphoned by the abductor himself as part of a modus operandi. Consider the following cases below where car trouble is central to the abduction of a woman. Note, in many of the cases below the car trouble was caused by the man that harmed the woman.

Kathleen Johns

Kathleen Johns was driving at night in a rural location when she was summoned to pull over in March of 1970 by a fellow driver, a male. He advised her that she had a problem with her tire. The man then 'helped' her by loosening the tire and when Johns drove away the tire fell off. The 'helpful' man then offered to drive Johns and her child to a service station.

Of course, this man may have been The Zodiac Killer. However, the point to be aware of is that the 'Good Samaritan' that shows up to help a distressed female motorist might be her mortal enemy. Whether by loosening a tire or some other sabotage, he may have caused the problem with the vehicle himself in hopes of putting the woman into a vulnerable situation.

Julia Ashe

Sedrick Cobb lurked in mall parking lots. According to writer David Krajicek, Cobb "used a valve stem remover to deflate a tire on the car of likely victims, then offered to change the flats when they returned from shopping" (Dec. 31 2013 article/Daily News). Cobb, employing this tactic, earned the trust of a woman before he raped and murdered her. That woman's name was Julia Ashe and the year was 1989. The blurb below from the September 13th, 1991 issue of The Hartford Courant accounts of some of the details:

The point to take away from the Ashe rape and murder, once again, is that the man that shows up to 'help' a woman with car trouble may have caused the car trouble himself.

Rose Tashman

Rose Tashman's unsolved murder has been mentioned in conjunction with the Robin Graham disappearance for decades. William J. Drummond, a writer, made comparisons between Graham and Tashman in The Los Angeles Times on November 18th, 1970.

In this case, it's not clear that Tashman's flat tire was caused by someone that wanted to help her. But that car trouble can precede the disappearance or murder of a young woman can't be overlooked. The criminals may simply be opportunists as opposed to carrying out a modus operandi involving vehicle sabotage. However, more examples could still be looked at.

Cindy Lee Mellin

Cindy Lee Mellin, also often mentioned in conjunction with Graham, was last seen in a mall parking lot in 1970 in Ventura, California. According to NamUs (#6849) "She was last seen standing next to her car in the shopping center parking lot while an unidentified male changed her tire. When she failed to return home that night, her father went to the shopping center looking for her and found her car still up on a jack with the flat tire still attached." That description certainly leaves much to the imagination. But it's not a stretcher to assume that the man that pretended to want to help her actually had more sinister motives in mind.

Kelly Dae Wilson

Kelly Dae Wilson is yet another example of a missing woman who had car trouble at around the time of her disappearance. Wilson went missing in Upshur County, Texas in 1993 after completing a shift at a video store. She is NamUs MP #6816. On the night that she went missing one of the tires of her vehicle was slashed. The following timeline of events, in this case, was published as per the details below (click to enlargen):

Note that Michael Biby, who went to high school with Wilson, served jail time for slashing her tire. If he did not disappear Wilson then it's very possible that the slashed tire made her vulnerable to an opportunist.

Conclusion

It's certainly soul-destroying to learn that someone who seems like a Good Samaritan is actually in the midst of committing a heinous crime. But the lessons of the missing-person's cases or murders mentioned above can't be ignored.

For the women readers, if you are facing car trouble and a man arrives to help you then you have to be skeptical: Mr. Johnny-on-the-spot with the perfect tool handy to fix your car might be the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper. That statement might wreak of paranoia to some, but minimally I would argue that you shouldn't stop driving if your vehicle is operational, even if someone is trying to flag you down. Get to a well-viewed area with lots of people around. Additionally, I would recommend not going to a secondary site with a Good Samaritan, whether that be in his car or yours.

NamUS MP #32981 (Marcella Krulce) and NamUS MP #7036 (Mary Ann Verdecchia)

Author: Shane Lambert

Marcella Krulce has been missing since November 19th, 1959. At the time of her disappearance, she was believed to be about 30 years old (b. 1929). She is missing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and NamUS offers the following circumstances:

Marcella Krulce

"Last seen on 11/19/1959 dining at the restaurant at the Martinique Apartments. She was a secretary at the United Fund of Allegheny County, living at the Martinique during the week and spending weekends at the family home in Strabane Twp. Failed to show up at work on Friday, 11/20/1959. Her clothes, jewelry, insulin and needles were found in their place at her apartment."

Marcella Krulce disappearance 1959 Thu, Nov 26, 1959 – Page 18 · The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

The Martinique Apartments were at 4740 Baum Boulevard. It was a building that made the news for the wrong reasons in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Firstly, I did find evidence of a mass murderer living at those apartments, however, the match to the address was just over four years later. Robert Lee Bricker, known as Pittsburgh's most notorious contracted killer, lived at the apartments in January of 1964 according to an address given in a news article.

At the time of Krulce's disappearance, he would have been 18 years old and, assumingly, capable of renting his own place. It would be interesting in regard to Krulce's case if anyone was able to connect him to his 4740 Baum Boulevard address at an earlier time than when I was able to. By my research, he was living there as of January 9th, 1964. 

How long had he been at that address?

Marcella Krulce Fri, Jan 24, 1964 – Page 2 · The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

Thu, Jan 9, 1964 – Page 1 · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

I did not find a ton of coverage for Krulce's missing-person's case in the media at the time. The one article that I found was in The Pittsburgh Press on November 26th, 1959. The article quoted the brother of the missing person who stressed that she needed daily insulin shots.

Is her diabetic condition a clue?

I do find it interesting that she disappeared after visiting a restaurant and that she was diabetic. When strangers prepare a diabetic's food, then I think he/she is at increased risk of going into insulin shock. If Krulce ordered something believing it was diabetic friendly or was inadvertently served sweetened food or drink (ie. a sugary drink instead of something low calorie) then perhaps she later went into insulin shock and ended up in a hospital as a Jane Doe. I would think that websleuths looking into this case should take some time to focus on a woman who was brought to a Pittsburgh hospital without ID on the date in question. If she collapsed in public it's possible that her purse would be stolen from her before a good samaritan would happen on her.

Regarding her health problems, the name "Miss Marcella Krulce" appeared in the March 7th, 1958 edition of the Daily Notes, a newspaper out of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The date of the article is roughly a year-and-a-half prior to Krulce's disappearance. It states that one "Miss Marcella Krulce," possibly the same individual that went missing, was admitted to a hospital for monitoring. It used to be that newspapers would chronicle hospital admissions and I think that's what the snippet below did.

The relevance could be that Krulce was having health problems in and around the time of her disappearance. A guess that she went into insulin shock after consuming too much sugar at the restaurant and was admitted to an area hospital without identification cannot be ignored in my view. Another article I found from the same newspaper is dated Thursday, March 20th of 1958. It states that she was "discharged" from the hospital on "Wednesday," which would have been March 19th. That means she would have been in the hospital for 12 days, suggesting that she did have significant health problems in the years that preceded her disappearance.

Krulce connected to another case?

But overall "Marcella Krulce" did not appear regularly in the databases I looked in. She was mentioned in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on January 5th, 1997 as part of an article that commented on several cases. Another article in the July 22nd, 2001 edition of the same newspaper mentions the case, calling it the "oldest" case that Pittsburgh detectives have regarding a missing person. This article contained an interesting comment as it stated that someone named Mary Ann Verdecchia went missing from the same apartment complex three years later.

Mary Ann Verdechia

Verdecchia is NamUS MP #7036. NamUS states the following:

"Verdecchia was last seen in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 7, 1962. Mary Ann, who lived with her Aunt, had returned home after a half day of classes at Immaculate Conception School, changed from her uniform and went outside about 12:30. She had lived with an aunt for five years, ever since her parents separated.

She was seen going into the Martinique Apartments on Baum Boulevard. She ran errands for a lady there, and the woman sent her to the store. She was seen going back into the apartment about 14.45. That was the last reported sighting of her. About 18.00 her relatives began looking for her, and they called police at 22.30."

The name of the "lady" that sent Mary Ann to the store is Jane Emery, a 23-year old who used to be Mary Ann's neighbour. A janitor at the Martinique Apartments, one William Dozier, also saw Mary Ann at a time after 2pm the day she disappeared (June 23rd, 1962 Pittsburgh Post Gazette).

Whether the cases of Krulce and Verdecchia should be considered related to one another isn't clear. Furthermore, the Martinique Apartments didn't seem to be a safe haven. A woman was murdered there in 1958, someone named Mrs. Mary Regan.

Wed, Jul 9, 1958 – Page 1 · The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

Author: Shane Lambert

Original Time of Writing: February 2018; updated December 26th, 2020; Third look on March 25th, 2025

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Could Erica Franolich Be Jane Doe UP #2607? A Missing Persons Case Comparison

I looked at this case for the third time in March 2025. This time AI is available as a tool. It suggested a 20% chance that the two individuals above are one and the same. I consider that high as it is much more than just a shot in the dark.

Missing Person: Erica Jayne Franolich (Erica Poprafsky -- maiden name)

Last seen or contact date: October 13th, 1986 at about 9pm

Where last seen: Middleburgh, New York near Main Street and Rail Road Avenue

Hair: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Other: mole on left knee

Clothing: Baggy shirt, blue denim overalls

It was in February 2017 when I suggested to the relevant NamUs personnel that Erica Franolich could be considered as a match to Namus' Unidentified Person #2607, a Jane Doe. Below, readers will find a copy and paste of the email I sent, one that was sent to Lori Bruski on February 1st, 2017. A snippet of the websleuths.com posting that drew my attention to the possible match is after the email message.

From my personal account on Gmail: "Hi, I was reading at Websleuths.com about Erica Jayne Franolich (NamUs MP 643). I saw a member of that website had mentioned UP #2607 listed as a potential match for Erica, but I don't know that anyone ever suggested it to authorities. The missing person and unidentified remains are in the same state (New York). The composite sketch bares a striking resemblance to Erica in my view. Furthermore, the remains were found just 2 years after Erica went missing. I wondered if this should be investigated. I know the post-mortem interval doesn’t match up, but I also saw that the UP was compared to other people with similar birthdates to Erica./Shane Lambert"*

*note: statement about "similar birthdates" was the wrong phrase to use.

Click to enlarge

Skepticism Surrounding the Post-Mortem Interval

The post-mortem interval is 15 years. The UP was found in 1988 and the interval means that she, whoever the unidentified person is, was estimated to have died in 1973. That is a major reason to discount the UP and the MP because Erica was known to have been alive in 1986 (ie. there is a 13-year gap between the UP's estimated year of death and Erica's last-seen-alive time).

Judith Brown

However, coroners don't always get things like post-mortem intervals right. The UP has numerous rule outs listed at NamUs, some of which went missing well after 1973 or even well beforehand. That seems to suggest that there is some doubt as to the post-mortem interval's length.

• Judith Brown (MP #3070) went missing in 1977 and she was still looked at as a potential match;
• Marie Blee (MP #5860) went missing in 1979 and she was still looked at as a potential match;
• Barbara Bruno (MP #11582) was last seen in 1980 and she was still looked at as a potential match;
• Charlotte Heimann (MP #5665) was last seen in 1981 and she was still looked at as a potential match.

Barbara Bruno

Marie Blee

Charlotte Heimann

That they looked at someone, Charlotte Heimann, that went missing eight years after the UP was thought to have died shows that there is not 100% confidence in the year-of-death estimations. That's a good reason to stay open-minded as to potential matches, even when a detail doesn't seem to corroborate.

None of the MPs just mentioned had the same striking resemblance to the composite sketch that Erica had (although Judith Brown had a very-reasonable resemblance).

DNA Limitations in the Investigation

One point that could be added to the points made above is that DNA would not match the Missing Person to the UP even if it was one and the same person. They do have Erica's DNA but according to NamUs the UP's DNA is insufficient. That means that DNA isn't a tool that can be used in this case.

Case Review Status and Lack of Rule-Out

I did get a reply from Bruski on February 2nd, 2017 claiming that the case would be reviewed and the information forwarded:

"Hello,

We have forwarded your email to the primary investigators for their review. They will contact you if they require any further information. The cases will also be reviewed by our staff.

Thank you,

Lori

Lori Bruski
Regional Systems Administrator
National Missing & Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)"

At this point, there is no update, and Erica's name has not been listed as a rule out of the Jane Doe's.

Family Testimony on Resemblance

The potential that the UP and the MP might be the same person has caught the attention of an individual on Facebook that I've briefly chatted with. Necia C. Labrador, who says that she is (was?) Erica Franolich's niece, called the resemblance between the MP and the UP's sketch "scary": "That really could be my aunt. The drawing looka just like her" [sic; "looka" probably meant to be "looks"].

In regard to the resemblances, there is, of course, the skin color and the hair color. But don't ignore other points of comparison: the hair length, the hair parting, and the similar teeth. The nose in the photo above and the sketch seem off but that's not going to be an exact science when sketching from decomposed remains.

Detailed Comparison: Erica Franolich vs. UP #2607

Below is a table comparing key details of Erica Franolich (MP #643) and UP #2607, based on current NamUs profiles as of March 25, 2025:

Attribute	Erica Jayne Franolich (MP #643)	Unidentified Person (UP #2607)
Biological Sex	Female	Female
Race/Ethnicity	White/Caucasian	White/Caucasian
Age	26 (at disappearance)	14–23 (estimated)
Height	5’4” (64 inches)	5’2” (62 inches, estimated)
Weight	100 lbs	Cannot estimate
Hair Color	Brown	Unknown
Eye Color	Brown	Unknown
Distinctive Features	Mole on left knee	No information entered
Date of Last Contact/Found	October 13, 1986	July 31, 1988 (body found)
Estimated Year of Death	N/A (missing since 1986)	1973 (15-year PMI)
Location	Middleburgh, NY (Schoharie County)	Irondequoit, NY (Monroe County)
Clothing	Baggy shirt, blue denim overalls	4 white buttons found near body
Circumstances	Last seen 9:00 PM, Main St./Rail Road Ave.	Found by boy digging, near-complete skeleton
DNA Status	Available (per article)	Insufficient (per article)

Grok, an AI assistant, estimates a 20% chance that Erica Franolich and UP #2607 are the same person. The number is low based on the significant PMI discrepancy (1973 vs. 1986), minor age and height differences, and lack of conclusive forensic evidence, despite the noted resemblance and geographic proximity within New York State. [Source: Grok, created by xAI, March 25, 2025]

I do consider 20% to be more than just a shot in the dark. It means that there are some significant overlaying characteristics. When I mentioned a striking similarity between the missing person and the composite sketch, Grok said that could subjectively raise the link to 50%.

Next Steps for Websleuths

Where do websleuths go from here? We either want a rule out listed at the UP's NamUs site or we want a match.

Websleuths interested in this case should be looking for information that suggests that they are NOT one in the same person. Looking for a contradiction is the proper way to proceed. To that end, some possible rule-out contradictions are looked at below. However, I don't think any of them are 100% convincing as rule outs. If nothing more convincing can be found, then hopefully this match is examined as a rule out. If it already has been ruled out, then hopefully Erica's name is added to the Doe's profile.

Contradictions:

• UP #2607's age range of 14 to 23 does not match Erica's age when last seen (she was 26);
• The height of the UP is 2 inches off of Erica's height;

A three-year difference in an estimated age of an Unidentified Person and the known age of a Missing Person is not a big deal in my view. I'm sure any websleuth out there that's looked at lots of cases will have come across bigger discrepancies that ended up being a match. A height of 2 inches is no big deal either: people often get the heights of those they knew wrong when reporting the demographics of missing people to authorities. Furthermore, getting the in-life height of skeletal remains isn't a perfect science.

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'Riverdale' fans focusing on Zodiac (2007) reference should be aware of the Phantom Killer

By: Shane Lambert

Episode 2 of Season 2 of Riverdale is available on Netflix. Those that have not watched it should be warned: this article contains plot spoilers in the very next paragraph. You have to stop reading now in order to avoid them. If you don't care about the plot spoilers, then scroll down.

********Plot Spoilers********

The episode, which is called "Nighthawks," centers around Archie Andrews, his fears over the fact that someone shot his father, and Pop Tate's efforts to save his fledgling business. The episode finishes with Midge and Moose starting to kiss in a lover's lane. A man, almost for certain the one that shot Fred Andrews and murdered Miss Grundy, emerges from behind Moose's car as he and Midge start to kiss. This man, the apparent serial killer that's terrorizing Riverdale, fires shots into the car, perhaps killing the amorous teenagers. Whether they are dead or not is something that isn't clear as "Nighthawks" ends.

Many are taking this murder scene as a reference to the Zodiac Killer and/or the 2007 film on that unknown individual. Phil Owen, writing at TheWrap.com on October 18th, offers this headline regarding the second episode of season two of Riverdale: "Yes, That Was a ‘Zodiac’ Homage at the End of ‘Nighthawks.’" Owen comments that the scene where Midge and Moose appear to get shot is "a pretty obvious homage to the 2007 David Fincher serial killer movie 'Zodiac'" (October 18th).

One can see why the murder scene would be taken to be an allusion to Fincher's film and even the Zodiac killer. After all, that unknown murderer did have lover's-lane victims. However, many appear to be missing a big point in zeroing in on the Zodiac film reference. That doesn't mean that Riverdale is going to follow a Zodiac kind of timeline. It may be sad commentary, but the Zodiac isn't the only serial killer that shot people in lover's lanes.

There is an unknown serial killer called the Phantom Killer that had numerous lover's-lanes victims in a town called Texarkana shortly after World War 2. Those killings and the police work that followed are the subject of a 1976 film by Charles B. Pierce called "The Town That Dreaded Sundown." If anything is to be considered an "obvious" allusion it's the fact that Episode 4 of Riverdale is also called "The Town That Dreaded Sundown."

#riverdale goes phantom killer??? this show is too much for me. remaking of the town that dreaded sundown? @MyFavMurder @CW_Riverdale pic.twitter.com/WgaiDhusis

— Sarah (@SaRaJaRv) October 19, 2017

Having watched that flick a few years back, the physical depictions of the Phantom Killer and the mystery killer in Riverdale are similar. At this point I think a stronger argument could be made that the allusion in Riverdale's "Nighthawks" is to The Moonlight Murders that plagued Texarkana in the 1940s and not anything to do with the Zodiac killer's murders. That doesn't mean that the scene of the shooting of Moose and Midge isn't similar to the 2007 Zodiac film. However, I think a lot of fans are missing the reference to the Phantom Killer here. He's the subject of the "The Town That Dreaded Sundown Film" and he shot young people in a lover's-lane setting.

Stephen Paddock's father 'diagnosed as a psychopath'

By: Shane Lambert

Some say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, a saying meant to suggest that children usually have the characteristics of their parents. In some cases that could definitely be for the better, however with Stephen Paddock, the man that murdered at least 59 people and injured hundreds others, it definitely seems for the worse. Back in 1969 Benjamin Hoskins Paddock made the FBI's most-wanted list, a list that Stephen certainly would have been on had he made any kind of escape after his spree killing in Las Vegas on the evening of October 1st.

B. Paddock was the subject of an article in the June 11th, 1969 issue of The Arizona Republic. The article stated that he was "balding, (stood) 6 feet 4, (had) been diagnosed as a psychopath and (was) considered 'extremely dangerous'" (no author listed). Certainly the last two characteristics applied to both father and son.

Alexis Scott NamUs MP #40059: Missing Since September 2017 from Peoria, Illinois

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: October 2nd, 2017
Revisited: January 28th, 2025

Alexis Scott is missing out of Peoria, Illinois. She was added to the NamUs Missing Person website on Sunday, October 1st, 2017. She went missing just eight days earlier on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017 at about 4am to 6am. That makes for a very short gap between her last-seen time and her NamUs-profile-created time.

NamUs offered the following circumstances (original time of publication): 

"Alexis was last seen at a house party, 123 Richmond Avenue Peoria, IL on 09/23/17 between the hours of 4-6am. "Witness" states that she left on foot after 5:30am but that’s yet to be confirmed."

• Note, these circumstances did not change when this profile was revisited on January 28th, 2025

The blurb at NamUs is a little strange in that they chose to quote the word "Witness" instead of just writing the word straight as there is no need to quote someone in that instance. Furthermore, it's bad grammar as it should be, "A witness." It's unclear if they are using that word in a sarcastic sense, which would normally involve single quotations. I wondered if they were trying to communicate something additional to the face value of the comments.

Description:

• Black female, long hair
• Tattoos on right shoulder: Paw Prints (see below), Inner Arm: Royalty (cursive), Left Wrist: Trevon (cursive)
• Blue jeans, half shirt & pink jacket
• 20 years old
• Has a piercing on the right side of her face below her mouth
• 63 inches to 68 inches (5'3" to 5'8") and 120 to 140 pounds

Media coverage: Minimal

Commentary:

• My opinion: date-rape scenarios can't be discounted based on the house-party setting
• The individual answering at her Facebook page said she had no vehicle
• The same individual spoke to possible filmed sightings at a Taco Bell and a gas station between 4am and 5am. This would contradict the witness sighting of her leaving the party at 5:30am, unless she returned from the Taco Bell/gas station and then left again a little while later, which certainly is not impossible.
• The nearest Taco Bell is half a block north with hours of operation on Saturday mornings opening at 7am
• A more modern news piece said that she never left the party (from 2024)

Snippet was taken in 2017.

• Her Facebook page is under her alias, Alexis Camry
• Her last post is September 23rd, 2017 at 3:46am (see below)

• She had over 2400 Facebook friends, including 34 recently-added ones

Christina Lynn Carter - NamUs #2684

I did some very quick research on Christina Lynn Carter. She has been missing since September 17th, 1973 when she was 3 years old. Her mother was found murdered at about that time, however it took a month to ID her mother. For this reason it was not known that Christina Lynn was missing until late October of 1973. She has not been seen since and theories on what probably happened to her aren't too satisfying.

Websleuth help: same-name research to be aware of

• Someone named Christina Lynn Carter was issued a marriage license in Manhattan, Kansas in September of 1991

• Someone named Christina Lynn Carter was admitted to the JC Blair Memorial Hospital according to The Daily News out of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on June 9th, 1980; very probable to be a different person, but my thoughts are that if it is the original CLC it might not have been possible to use a different name for medical reasons.

• Someone named Christina Lynn Carter graduated from Murphy High School in North Carolina, but the year was 1997 so thee Christina Lynn Carter would have been 24
• Two matching names on Facebook, one of a 40-something year old with possibly blonde hair
• Twitter tweet not referencing a missing-person case with the exact name match from 2011:

thanks Pat Rice Bazzell, Mayor Mike Allen, Christina Lynn Carter, Kelly Wilkerson, and the other Leadership... http://fb.me/Scm6olAr

— Mineral Wells (@chambermw) February 24, 2011