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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "On March 18, 2000, joggers along a road near the Mount Baker Highway in Whatcom County, Washington, United States, reported a wrecked vehicle at the bottom of an embankment near Canyon Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Nooksack River. Deputy sheriffs found a white 1993 Jeep Cherokee with North Carolina license plates. They traced the car to Leah Roberts (born July 23, 1976), who had abruptly left her home in Durham, North Carolina, nine days earlier. A gas station attendant in nearby Everett, Washington, called police claiming to have seen her there, disoriented, shortly after the car was found; she has otherwise remained missing.In the years preceding Roberts' disappearance, both of her parents had died, and she herself had survived serious injury from a car accident. Her friends and siblings say this had left her pondering spiritual issues and questioning the direction of her life. She had dropped out of North Carolina State University on the verge of graduation and had begun spending much of her time in a local coffeehouse, writing poetry in her journal that dealt with the issues she was pondering. A note she left behind suggested that she had taken inspiration from the works of Jack Kerouac, particularly his novel The Dharma Bums, which has scenes set at Desolation Peak, near where her car was found. She also left money to cover expenses while she was gone, suggesting she expected to return in the space of a month.Investigators have focused on the possibly contradictory evidence in her car. Documents inside suggest she had reached Bellingham, Washington, by March 13, five days before the car was found. Early suspicions that the vehicle was unoccupied when it was wrecked, suggesting it was done intentionally, were confirmed when the car's internal workings were examined several years later and found to have been sabotaged in such a way as to make this possible. Blankets hung in the windows suggest it might have been used as shelter afterwards. Roberts' personal belongings were found scattered near the scene; however, robbery did not seem likely as money and jewelry were among them.Though the case has been featured on the television shows Unsolved Mysteries and Disappeared, few leads have emerged. In the summer of 2005 volunteers from a North Carolina missing-persons awareness group organized a caravan across the country to raise awareness of her case and others. It has since become an annual event."@en }

• Disappearance_of_Leah_Roberts abstract "On March 18, 2000, joggers along a road near the Mount Baker Highway in Whatcom County, Washington, United States, reported a wrecked vehicle at the bottom of an embankment near Canyon Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Nooksack River. Deputy sheriffs found a white 1993 Jeep Cherokee with North Carolina license plates. They traced the car to Leah Roberts (born July 23, 1976), who had abruptly left her home in Durham, North Carolina, nine days earlier. A gas station attendant in nearby Everett, Washington, called police claiming to have seen her there, disoriented, shortly after the car was found; she has otherwise remained missing.In the years preceding Roberts' disappearance, both of her parents had died, and she herself had survived serious injury from a car accident. Her friends and siblings say this had left her pondering spiritual issues and questioning the direction of her life. She had dropped out of North Carolina State University on the verge of graduation and had begun spending much of her time in a local coffeehouse, writing poetry in her journal that dealt with the issues she was pondering. A note she left behind suggested that she had taken inspiration from the works of Jack Kerouac, particularly his novel The Dharma Bums, which has scenes set at Desolation Peak, near where her car was found. She also left money to cover expenses while she was gone, suggesting she expected to return in the space of a month.Investigators have focused on the possibly contradictory evidence in her car. Documents inside suggest she had reached Bellingham, Washington, by March 13, five days before the car was found. Early suspicions that the vehicle was unoccupied when it was wrecked, suggesting it was done intentionally, were confirmed when the car's internal workings were examined several years later and found to have been sabotaged in such a way as to make this possible. Blankets hung in the windows suggest it might have been used as shelter afterwards. Roberts' personal belongings were found scattered near the scene; however, robbery did not seem likely as money and jewelry were among them.Though the case has been featured on the television shows Unsolved Mysteries and Disappeared, few leads have emerged. In the summer of 2005 volunteers from a North Carolina missing-persons awareness group organized a caravan across the country to raise awareness of her case and others. It has since become an annual event.".