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The It was 1993 and Sharon Lee was worried. Her 15-year-old daughter Melissa had not come home.

This was not that unusual for Melissa, but some things didn't seem right to Sharon, and she grew increasingly concerned after calling around to Melissa's friends and failing to find her.

Sharon called the Nihomish County Washington Sheriff's Office at 14th, on Wednesday,

April 14th. When the responding officer, Deputy Stan Breda, called Sharon back at 152, she told

him the following. The previous day, Tuesday, Sharon had gone to work at her bartending job at the

Pine Cone Cafe. After work, her live-in fiancé Gary McClellan had picked her up, and the two had hit some bars, played some darts, gotten some dinner, and then gone to a karaoke place. She left her daughter, Melissa, age 15, at home, and Melissa was having her best friend, Krista, sleep over. Sharon called the house from work around 9.30 p.m. and spoke to Melissa. Everything was fine. Melissa told her her bestie Krista was coming over later to spend the night. But when Sharon and Gary arrived at the house after 2 a.m., Melissa wasn't there, and it looked like something might have happened. Sharon said that when she and Gary pulled into the driveway, the front door to the

house was wide open. It was the middle of the night. That was the first sign that something

was seriously wrong, and it only got worse from there. Gary told Sharon to stay there and went

inside first. The house was empty, but the living room was a mess with the couch cushions

thrown around the floor, the red wooden coffee table overturned, and an ashtray, a jar of peanuts, and a glass of milk all spilled onto the floor.

The brown telephone was off the hook lying on the floor as well. A radio was lying on its back. The family's pet macaws' cage door was open and the bird was free in the house.

Sharon joined Gary inside once he gave the all-clear. A thorough search and the bird was free in the house. Sharon joined Gary inside once he

gave the all-clear. A thorough search of the house failed to locate Melissa, but a strong chemical smell

permeated the house when the couple first walked in, to the point that they opened the windows to

air the place out. Sharon did not call the police right then and there because Melissa was a bit of a handful, as she put it,

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