Account
Apr 15, 2010
May 31, 2023
Darci
Warde
50
16
67 inches
175 lbs
White / Caucasian
Female
In the spring of 1990, a 16-year-old girl named Darci Renae Warde vanished from Seattle, Washington, leaving behind a mystery that has endured for decades. She was last seen on April 24, 1990. Prior to her disappearance, Darci had a history of running away from home. Just before she went missing for the final time, police had located her after a previous runaway incident and returned her to her residence. However, shortly after being brought home, Darci ran away again, and this time, she was never heard from again. At the time of her disappearance, she was described as a white female with brown hair and blue eyes, standing between 5'2" and 5'7" tall. The circumstances surrounding Darci's disappearance are troubling, particularly given the context of the time and place. In the years around her disappearance, several other young women and teenagers also went missing from the Seattle area. A number of these missing individuals, including Darci, were known to have connections to sex work. This pattern led authorities to suspect that a serial killer might have been operating in the region and could be responsible for at least some of these disappearances. Despite these concerns, Darci's case has officially remained classified as an endangered runaway. Over the years, a compelling and tragic theory has emerged linking Darci's case to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer. Investigators have reason to believe that Darci may have been one of his victims. This suspicion is partly based on statements Ridgway made during police interviews after his capture, where he reportedly confessed to killing a young woman named "Darci" or "Dorsey" in the mid to late 1980s whom he had picked up in Tacoma. Some investigators, including Green River investigator Tom Jensen, have expressed their belief that Ridgway was responsible for Darci's disappearance. Although Ridgway was convicted of numerous murders, Darci's remains have never been found, and her case officially remains an unsolved mystery, a lingering question of whether she was another victim of a notorious killer or met a different, unknown fate.
Apr 24, 1990
Seattle
Washington
King County
No
30433
Seattle Police Department
Seattle
Washington
King County
98104
610 5th Avenue, Washington
2066255011
Local
Law Enforcement
90-164862
Seattle Police Department
Brown
Blue
Blue
No
06/26/2026
