CRESTVIEW — Police seeks leads on the whereabouts of Kristy Jean Rogers, who would celebrate her 35th birthday this August. She was last seen 21 days before turning 17.
Kristy disappeared after leaving her boyfriend’s house around 5 a.m. Aug. 2, 1997. She was walking roughly 15 minutes home. “There’s been reports that she got into a car," Crestview Police Lt. Don Fountain said.
Wilma Sanders, Kristy’s mom, believed Kristy was spending the night with girlfriends and didn’t become worried until later that afternoon, when Kristy’s boyfriend called and told her when Kristy had left his home.
Since the disappearance, agencies from large to small, local to federal, have tried to figure out what happened to Kristy. Investigators have followed leads across the state and country, and Kristy’s disappearance was even featured on national television in 2011.
Still, hope remains, even in unsolved cases, according to Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Michele Nicholson.
“You call them cold cases," she said. "The truth of the matter is they’re never closed out.
"There’s always the hope that someone who has information is going to realize that now is the time to come forward.”
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: STILL MISSING: Can you help find this Crestview woman?