Alyssa McLemore has been missing since 2009.
The Washington State Patrol Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit will unveil a new semi-truck featuring the image of Alyssa McLemore, who in 2009 went missing from Kent. The truck will be used by Kan-Way Transportation to ferry goods around the country as part of the Homeward Bound Truck initiative started in 2005 by WSP Trooper Renee Padgett.
The truck will be unveiled at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at a location between the State Capitol Building and the Temple of Justice in Olympia.
More than 25 persons have been featured on Homeward Bound vehicles since 2005, with three having been recovered. About one of every six missing children are recovered due to the public dissemination of a photograph, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The state legislature recently passed a law drafted to increase focus and resources put towards women missing from Native American communities. McLemore is of mixed African American and Aleut heritage. She disappeared after calling 911 from her grandmother’s home on April 9, 2009. Native women are murdered at 10 times the rate of the national average, according to analysis performed by state lawmakers and law enforcement.
For more information on McLemore’s case, contact Carri Gordon, MPU program manger, at 360-280-0403. For more information on Wednesday’s event, call WSP Communications Director Chris Loftis at 360-485-3983.
