On March 18, 2000, joggers along a road near the Mount Baker Highway in Whatcom County, Washington, United States reported seeing a wrecked vehicle at the bottom of an embankment near Canyon Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Nooksack River. Deputy sheriffs found a white 1993 Jeep Cherokee with North Carolina license plates. They traced the car to Leah Roberts (born July 23, 1976) who had abruptly left her home in Durham, North Carolina nine days earlier. A gas station attendant in Everett, Washington called police claiming to have seen her there, disoriented, shortly after the car was found; she has otherwise remained missing.