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.
Stacy Arras (Source) The Charley Project
Stacy Arras (Source) The Fresno Bee archive
NPS Search Photos (Source) NPS FOIA Releas
NPS Search Photos (Source) NPS FOIA Release
NPS Search Photos (Source) NPS FOIA Release
NPS Search Photos (Source) NPS FOIA Release
Stacy Arras Age Progression (Source) The Charley Project
Yosemite National Park Sunrise High Sierra Camp Map
Yosemite National Park
Episode Source Material
- 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