Roberta Joseph Hayes, known to her family as Bobby Joe, was 21 when she vanished on February 7, 1987, after being released from custody in Portland, Oregon, where she had been detained for prostitution. She had spent much of her youth living on the streets of Seattle and appeared in the 1984 documentary Streetwise; despite that life, she kept ties with family and returned for holidays and birthdays.

Skeletal remains were found on September 11, 1991, near a secluded dirt road off Highway 410 about ten miles east of Enumclaw. Initial misidentification delayed answers, but dental records in 1993 confirmed the remains were Roberta Hayes. Because of the condition of the remains, no specific cause of death could be determined, and investigators classified the death as a homicide.

Does anyone have information about Roberta’s last known movements in Portland or the Seattle area that could help fill gaps in the timeline?