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A promising WSU student vanished in 1971. Her killer has never been found.
54 years later, Joyce LePage's murder remains unsolved
A promising WSU student vanished in 1971. Her killer has never been found.
www.king5.com
''It was the summer of 1971 when Joyce LePage, a Washington State University student, disappeared from campus. Ten days later, her father reported her missing after she did not show up to a planned family outing. Nine months after her disappearance, a hunter discovered her skeletal remains in a remote canyon 12 miles from campus.
More than five decades later, her murder remains unsolved.
"We didn't even know where she was for 10 days," said Bruce LePage, Joyce's brother''
''On July 22, 1971, Joyce was last seen on campus. Her father expected her home that weekend for the boat races, but she never showed up.''
''At the same time Joyce went missing, WSU police were investigating vandalism at Stevens Hall, a dormitory under renovation. A piece of carpet had been cut out and removed from the building on the morning of July 23, 1971.
Investigators later learned Joyce would sometimes spend nights in Stevens Hall, even though she had an apartment three blocks away. Her belongings were found in the same area where the carpet went missing.''
Credit: KING 5
The exterior of Stevens Hall at WSU.
''Nine months after her disappearance, her remains were found on April 16, 1972, in a gully roughly 10-15 miles south of Pullman, west of Colton, just off Wawawai Road in remote Wawawai Canyon.
Her primarily skeletal remains were wrapped inside a military blanket and green carpet. The green rug had gone missing roughly ten days before when she was reported missing from the university's Stevens Hall, which was under construction when she disappeared.''
