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Disappearance of Leah Roberts

On March 13, 2000, Leah Roberts (born July 23, 1976), left a restaurant in Bellingham, Washington, United States, where she had driven from her home in Durham, North Carolina over the previous four days. There have been no reported sightings of her since. On March 18, her car was discovered wrecked and abandoned at the bottom of a hill off a road in nearby North Cascades National Park. Several years after her disappearance, police examined the car's starter motor and found that it had been tampered with, indicating the vehicle may have been crashed intentionally.

Roberts had left Durham unexpectedly, leaving only rent money and a note for her housemate suggesting she might return in a few weeks. She said she wanted to take a road trip like that of author Jack Kerouac, whose work she admired. Over the previous decade she had experienced the deaths of both parents and a car accident that almost took her own life. She dropped out of North Carolina State University a semester short of graduation. Her older siblings recall that she seemed lost and directionless at that point in her life.

Roberts's disappearance has been covered on the television shows ''Unsolved Mysteries'' and ''Disappeared'', but few leads have emerged. In the summer of 2005, volunteers from a North Carolina missing-persons awareness group organized a caravan across the country to raise awareness for her case and others. The caravan has since become an annual event. Provided by Wikipedia