I not sure if I've ever posted on this thread before, but I wanted to tell all of you that I think what you are doing to help Anna's Mom is wonderful! I can't even imagine what you have been going through for the past 30+ years!
In January 2008, my mom and I took a trip out to Northern Cali. On our last day, we decided we'd just drive around and see what we could see. We started driving down the coast from San Francisco and ended up in Half Moon Bay. When we got there, I started telling my mom Anna's story. We talked about it as we drove for about the next 3 hours. She continues to ask me if there are any new developments.
I have just ordered the book and will be sure that it gets passed on to others to read of this intriguing journey you have been on.
A few pages back, I saw a post about someone mentioning about putting up a billboard? I used to work in the billboard industry for a national company. Locally in Minnesota, we have 4 missing young persons and we put up billboards for them for free. As of this date, only 1 of those 4 has still not been found. His billboard would still be up for all to see, however 3 of the 4 persons were male college students and all of their photos were on the same billboard, so after 2 of the 3 were found, we were asked to have it removed.
I know the company I worked for has done this in other areas (as it's a national billboard company), so please let me know if I can be of help to get telephone numbers/contact names of people in your local area to see if they'll help.
Best of luck in your search and thanks to all the wonderful searchers for their hard work!
I'm hoping 2009 is the year you finally find the answers you've been searching for.
Paula