IDAHO FALLS — When 13-year-old Blanca “Elisa” Roberson left home on the evening of Aug 6. 1989, her family expected her to return a few hours later. But she never came back and now, over 35 years later, loved ones are still desperate for answers.

“I remember that night vividly,” Ruby Roberson Hall, Elisa’s sister, tells EastIdahoNews.com. “My mom and I stayed up all night looking out the window, waiting for Elisa to walk down the street. I kept thinking she would just turn the corner and say, ‘I’m home, Mom.’ But she never did.”

Elisa disappeared that summer evening from the small coastal town of Aransas Pass, Texas — a tight-knit shrimping community where everyone knew each other. It was still light outside when she left home for Kieberger Elementary School just six minutes away, where

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