16 Years old. Last seen leaving her home in Lac La Hache to hitchhike to a nearby friend’s house.[9] DNA evidence had been analyzed in 2007 but not yielded a match. Based on improved technology, it was analyzed again in 2012, revealing a match to convicted rapist and murder suspect, American Bobby Jack Fowler, who had died in prison in 2006. He had been working in BC in 1974.[8]