Debbie Key missing 17 years ago today

An anniversary post as a favor for my friend Bill Widman: his friend Deborah Leigh Key vanished from Carrboro, North Carolina on this day in 1997.

Authorities are pretty sure they know what happened to her: years later, Andrew Douglas Dalzell, the last person known to have been with her, confessed to her murder. The confession was tossed out of court and the prosecution wasn’t able to go forward on a murder charge without it. But Dalzell’s not going anywhere. He’s since been locked up for soliciting a “little girl” (actually a cop) online. He got 26 years.

Make-a-List Monday: Community college students

This list is for people who were students at a community college when they disappeared. For the uninitiated, community colleges (sometimes called junior colleges or technical colleges) are open-admission colleges which provide two-year degrees, either an associate of arts or associate of science. They are nearly always public schools and tuition tends to be considerably cheaper than at four-year colleges, free even in some states. The credits earned at a community college can usually be transferred to a four-year institution if the student wants to complete a bachelor’s degree. You can often get your GED there too. More recently, a few community colleges have started to offer bachelor’s degrees in a few select subjects, usually in technical type fields. At Northwestern Michigan College, for example, you can now get a bachelor’s degree in marine technology.

Anyway, on to the collegiate MPs:

Ganignunt Aiemsakul — Montgomery College
Zabullah Alam — Northern Virginia Community College
Mary Anne Alexie — Alaska Career College
Heidi Marie Allen — Onondaga Community College
Mildred Gayle Barrett — Rancho Santiago College
Sandra B. Bertolas — Waukesha County Technical College
Jonathan James Betts — Pima Community College
Jacob Cabinaw — Northwestern Michigan College
Elizabeth Ann Campbell — Central Texas College
Dorothy May Caylor — Diablo Valley College
Rachel Louise Cooke — San Diego Mesa College
Patricia Alma Corbett — Miami-Dade Community College
Jose Guillermo Coria Jr. — Allan Hancock College
Michelle Crawford — unspecified community college
Josephine Doris Despard — Jamestown Community College
Kyle Andrew Carl Eppler — Santa Fe College
Augustine Lee Floyd — Northwestern Michigan College
Jamie Michelle Fraley — Gaston College
Jason Rodney Galehouse — Hillsborough Community College
Robin Ann Graham — Pierce College
Zita Cecilia Gutierrez — Montgomery College
Angela Gray Hamby — Wilkes Community College!
Carole Embery Hamilton — Madisonville Community College
Bilial Lamir Hammette — Madison Media Institute
Beau Garrett Heller — Citrus College
Michelle Antoinette Henson — Florida Keys Community College
Barbara Ann Hilton — Lake Land College
Artdrunetta Lareann Hobbs — Atlanta Technical College
Sandra Lee Hopler — Keystone Junior College
David Matthew Jaramillo — Wenatchee Valley College
Donyelle C. Johnson — St. Petersburg Junior College
Donna Haghighat Jou — Santiago Canyon Community College
Jeannette Kamahele — Santa Rosa Junior College
Ryan Jan Kemp — Lehigh County Community College
Richard Antoine Keppi — Santa Barbara City College
Elizabeth Ann Lande — Philadelphia Community College
Tina Louise Layton — American River College
Troy Le — San Diego Mesa College
Cawana Lashay Logan — Daytona Beach Community College, now a four-year school called Daytona State College
Carol Jeanne Lubahn — El Camino College
Michael D. Mansfield — Lincoln College
Cynthia Jane Marl — Wenatchee Valley College
Marilyn Renee McCown — Sinclair Community College
Jane McDonald-Crone — North Harris County College
Dena Viola McHan — San Joaquin Delta College
Indira Montiero — Manhattan Community College
Katrina Montgomery — Santa Monica College
Jeremiah Jamal Parker — Baton Rouge Community College
Stacy A. Pennant — Queensborough Community College
Stacy Ann Peterson — Joliet Junior College
Zebb Wayne Quinn — Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Jalesa Chantell Reynolds — Halifax Community College
Rachel Ann Rhodes — Santa Rosa Junior College
Benjamin Melvin Roseland — Clinton Community College
Evelyn Audrey Shelton — Spartanburg Community College
Austin Jay Smith — Citrus College
Dedrick Bernard Smith — Forsyth Technical Community College
Laurie Allison Smith — Pima Community College
Kimberly Dawn Stewart — North Central Missouri College
Brian W. Sullivan — Monroe Community College
Brandon Victor Swanson — Minnesota West Community and Technical College
Andrew James Torii — El Camino College
Robin D. Trivisonno — Atlantic Cape Community College
Charlene Marie Villinger — Tidewater Community College
Darlene Ann Webb — Daytona Beach Community College, now a four-year school called Daytona State College
Eugene Bush Wekesa — Bellevue Community College