Vigil Saturday, 15 years after Kristen Modafferi disappeared
Kristen Modafferi of Charlotte was last seen on June 23, 1997, leaving her job at a coffeehouse in San Francisco. The rising sophomore at N.C. State University had moved there for the summer to work and take a class at the University of California at Berkeley.
On the 15th anniversary of Kristen Modafferi’s disappearance,
organizers of a foundation for missing adults will gather Saturday in
Frazier Park to remember her.
Modafferi, a Providence High School graduate, was 18 when she was last seen on June 23, 1997, leaving her job at a coffeehouse in San Francisco. The rising sophomore – and Park Scholar – at N.C. State University had moved there for the summer to work and take a class at the University of California at Berkeley.
A year after her disappearance, police said they suspected foul play. But her case remains unsolved.
Joan Scanlon-Petruski, a neighbor of Modafferi’s parents’, created the Kristen Foundation, which gives assistance to families searching for missing and endangered adults. The foundation has provided search teams with equipment and placed “missing person” billboards across the country.
On Saturday, organizers will gather at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Memorial Walkway in Frazier Park to remember Modafferi and others missing from the Charlotte area. Scanlon-Petruski is inviting area families with missing loved ones to join them and seek help from the foundation.
Modafferi, a Providence High School graduate, was 18 when she was last seen on June 23, 1997, leaving her job at a coffeehouse in San Francisco. The rising sophomore – and Park Scholar – at N.C. State University had moved there for the summer to work and take a class at the University of California at Berkeley.
A year after her disappearance, police said they suspected foul play. But her case remains unsolved.
Joan Scanlon-Petruski, a neighbor of Modafferi’s parents’, created the Kristen Foundation, which gives assistance to families searching for missing and endangered adults. The foundation has provided search teams with equipment and placed “missing person” billboards across the country.
On Saturday, organizers will gather at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Memorial Walkway in Frazier Park to remember Modafferi and others missing from the Charlotte area. Scanlon-Petruski is inviting area families with missing loved ones to join them and seek help from the foundation.
Kristen
had completed her freshman year in the School of Design at North
Carolina State University, one of a close knit group of twenty-five
students on academic scholarship through the Park Foundation. Kristen
was encouraged, like her fellow students, to plan an enriching "summer
experience", either domestically or abroad, and be prepared to share the
adventure with the group of Park Scholars on returning to NC State
University for their sophomore year. 