Identified! CA - Rancho Cucamonga, WhtFem 633UFCA, 15-30, in vineyard, Jun'79 - *GRAPHIC* - Karen Marie Heverly

[Blurgle]

The parents could have talked to medias to bring attention to their missing daughter, especially because she left under unknown circumstances. No need for an official police report.

Edit : Grammar

The media wouldn’t have lifted a finger.
I don't think most people here understand just how uninterested nearly everyone was back then in the fates of runaway teens. The prevailing feeling wasn't sympathy or even hostility, although the latter was more common than the former; the prevailing feeling was apathy, of the most stubborn, mule-headed type. People didn’t think runaway teens (and especially runaway girls) were a problem worth spending time and money on. Let them die like the dogs they are and let us get on with our lives.
There was simply no compassion for these kids.

 

[lightofmine99]

The 1960s and 1970s, based on what I have read and heard, were certainly a really weird, almost "wild westy" time in North America. Probably why serial killers were so "successful" during that period. MOO.