Leah Roberts was 5 foot 3 inches with short dark hair and a beauty mark above the right side of her lips. Leah's life took a pretty standard path starting with a happy childhood in Durham, North Carolina where she lived

with her parents and two older siblings, Sister Kara and brother Heath.

And then she began attending college at North Carolina State University in nearby Raleigh.

Because of unexpected events and tragedies,

Leah would change direction in her early 20s

and begin a journey of self-exploration that would take her on an impromptu road trip.

On March 9, 2000, Leah Roberts left her Durham,

North Carolina home and began driving west.

Nine days later, her white Jeep Cherokee

was found wrecked and abandoned at the base of the Cascade Mountains 80 miles north of Seattle, Washington.

Leah was not inside the Jeep, and to this day she has still not been found, but a later examination of the vehicle

would show the engine had been tampered with.

And maybe someone had targeted Leah Roberts as she was out in the world trying to find herself. Hello everybody welcome back to crime weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek

Levasseer so today we're diving into a new case. It is an unsolved case, a missing

person who's still missing, but I think it's very eerie because the

circumstances surrounding her disappearance

makes it look like Leah Roberts should not be with us any longer.

She should have been in that jeep, and the jeep was crashed

at the bottom of a mountain in a ravine and it just seems like she should not have

survived that kind of accident. But there's a... You're gonna do this again for me, huh?

What? I mean we went through the Daniel Robinson episode not too long ago.

Very, very similar. And I'm hearing the teaser, as you guys are hearing it, she records the teaser right with me, with you guys. So just so you know, like as you're hearing it for She records the teaser right with me with you guys so just so you know like as you're

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