A teenage girl disappears while on a horseback riding trip in Yosemite National Park during the summer of 1981. Park rangers are left mystified and baffled when only the lens to her camera surfaces as a clue to what happened to her. The fate of Stacy Arras remains a haunting mystery after more than four decades.
The Episode
- Statesman Journal (Salem, OR): Girl, 14, lost in Yosemite Park, by Associated Press.
- The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA): Helicopters search for missing girl, by UPI.
- The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA): Search grows for teen-ager in Yosemite, by McClatchy News Service.
- The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California): Yosemite search for girl, 14, is scaled back.
- The Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA): Search for missing girl continues.
- The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA): Search for girl ends.
- The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA): A second look/ Ex-juror still jobless; girl’s disappearance unsolved, by Carl Irving.
- The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA): Girl’s disappearance in Yosemite haunts family a year later, by Gene Rose.
- FOIA released documents for Stacy Arras Case. Accessed via NPS.gov
- Operation Reports Archive 1981 via Ron Atkins
- National Park Service: Cold Cases
- Yosemite.com Sunrise High Sierra Camp Info
- Travel Yosemite
- Strange Outdoors: The Bizarre Disappearance of Stacey Arras from Yosemite National Park.
- SFGATE: These 13 People Went Missing in Yosemite National Park and Haven’t Been Seen Again. By Katie Down.
- California Attorney General’s Office: Missing Person Stacey Ann Arras.
- Stacey Arras NAMUS Profile
- Stacy Arras Charley Project Profile