Eleven-year-old Doris Oehring left home on her bicycle in North Pole, Alaska, on June 13, 1980, and never returned. Her bicycle was found hidden in brush off Badger Road near the house, and a witness later reported a small blue car speeding away as if someone were struggling in the passenger seat. Days earlier, Doris’s brother had seen her talking with a man by a blue car; the man had a GI-style haircut and appeared to be in a military-type uniform.

Investigators connected Doris’s disappearance to a string of killings around Eielson Air Force Base that shared a pattern of strangulation followed by a gunshot to the face, bodies found south of Fairbanks, and the recurring presence of a blue car. Attention eventually focused on Technical Sergeant Thomas Richard Bunday, an electronics instructor who drove a blue car. After Alaska detectives interviewed him in Texas in March 1983, Bunday admitted strangling and shooting Doris and described where her body would be found. He died by steering his motorcycle into an oncoming truck on March 15, 1983, before an arrest could be completed. In August 1986 searchers recovered Doris’s skull at Eielson Air Force Base in the area Bunday had indicated.

Anyone who knew Doris, saw a small blue car near Badger Road in June 1980, or has information about activity around Eielson Air Force Base that summer is asked to come forward.