Leah Roberts
On March 13, 2000, Leah Roberts, a 23-year-old from Durham, North Carolina, disappeared after leaving a restaurant in Bellingham, Washington, where she had arrived following a four-day drive across the country. She has not been seen since. Five days later, on March 18, her Jeep was found wrecked and abandoned at the bottom of an embankment off a road in North Cascades National Park. Years later, investigators determined that the vehicle's starter motor had been tampered with, suggesting the crash may have been staged.
Roberts had left Durham unexpectedly, leaving rent money and a note for her housemate indicating she might return in a few weeks. She had told friends she wanted to take a road trip inspired by the work of author Jack Kerouac. In the years leading up to her disappearance, Roberts had experienced the deaths of both parents and survived a serious car accident. She withdrew from North Carolina State University one semester before graduation, and her siblings later recalled that she appeared directionless during that period.
Her disappearance has been featured on Unsolved Mysteries and Disappeared, but few substantive leads have emerged. In 2005, volunteers from a North Carolina missing-persons awareness group organized a cross-country caravan to draw attention to her case and others, an event that has since become an annual tradition.
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