Date of Death: May 5 - 7, 1977

About this case:
Valaine, age 18, was a student at the LDS Business College at the time of her disappearance and murder.   She was last seen leaving the building her class was in at 11:20am on May 5, 1977. She had plans to meet her roommate at their apartment at noon to go shopping.  Valaine never arrived to that appointment.  Relatives and friends described her as being very punctual.  Her nude body along with some of her school books was discovered on May 7, 1977 approximately ¼ mile up Lambs Canyon.  She had been assaulted.  The cause of death is determined to be strangulation.