Betty Lou Japel, age 70

Lost to gun violence on March 29, 2006 in Quartzsite, Arizona.

Betty Lou Japel was last heard from in 2006 after going missing while traveling with her partner, Kenneth Miller. In June 2007, Miller's body was found in a grave near the site of where their abandoned motor home was located in Oregon.In 2008 through DNA it was discovered to be Betty.

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