MUS-2026-0050
Archive card
MUS-2026-0050
Missing person
- Incident
- 2000
- Indexed
- Oct 3, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- Whatcom County Sheriff's Office
- Location
- Bellingham WA
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Leah Roberts, 23, left Durham, North Carolina on a cross-country road trip and was last seen in Bellingham, Washington on March 13, 2000. Her Jeep was found five days later crashed at the bottom of a logging-road embankment; investigators later found the starter motor had been tampered with, suggesting the crash was staged. She was never found and no arrests have been made in more than two decades.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- 2000
Leah Roberts, 23, is last seen in Bellingham, Washington on March 13.
- 2000
Her Jeep is found crashed at the bottom of a logging-road embankment five days later.
- 2000s
Investigators discover the Jeep's starter motor had been tampered with, suggesting the crash was staged.
- 2026
Few substantive leads have emerged and no arrests have been made in over two decades.
Key people
The people in the file.
23, of Durham, North Carolina. Last seen in Bellingham, Washington on March 13, 2000.
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Investigating agency
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