A 17 year old girl in foster care disappears and is reported missing. It is not at all unusual for kids in the foster system to run away and if they are approaching 18, (when they would age out of the system anyway), their case is generally ignored but they are on record as a “missing and endangered minor”. I do not know how the CLS (Child Protective Service) would handle situations like that but I suspect they were written off and forgotten.
Soon after, a girl checks into a hospital in a neighboring county (Marin) with injuries sustained while attempting to escape from a driver who had given her a ride and then seemed to be abducting her. She gave the same name as the missing girl but gave her age as 21 and did not claim to have a local address. As her name was very common, the hospitalized girl was only linked to the missing girl after she had been discharged and disappeared again. Later, the local paper reports that she was found safe “ at home with her family” in a different county(Alameda county) Since she had been living with a foster family in Sonoma county, it is unclear what family she was living with. Perhaps her biological family). The missing person case however, was never closed.
This whole situation raises two very tantalizing questions. Could the “Sonoma County” Lisa be an addition victims and, could the “Alameda County” Lisa be a witness who might be able to identify the “ Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Serial killer”. I think it is extremely unlikely that she was attacked once and survived and was attacked again and murdered. Because the name was so common and the child protective services did not use Social Security Numbers it identify clients, no one was ever certain if they were the same person. Since 1972, the “Alameda County” Lisa has probably married and changed her name, no one has been able to track her down. Many internet sleuths have tried.