21 year old Stefanie Kelly Stroh was a student of Reed College in Portland Oregon. She had decided to take a year off from school. She would spend 9 months in Asia and when she returned the states she started out in New York and was going to hitchhike across the U.S. to California.
On October 15, 1987 Stefanie called her parents from Four Way Cafe and Truck Stop in Wells Nevada. She'd told them that she'd gotten a ride and would be home the next day. She never arrived and her light grey suitcase, orange sleeping bag and pink purse was not found.
Tommy Lynn Sells convicted murderer and possible serial killer claimed to have taken Stefanie's life. he said that he'd offer to take her to Reno, Nevada and on the way they took LSD. Sells claimed to have strangled her to death. Sells was driving a stolen truck and saw some cement and a tub. He'd covered her feet in the cement and then dumped her in a hot spring the next morning.
Sells was never convicted in her disappearance. In actuality he'd only been convicted in one murder but confessed up to 21 murders including Stefanie Stroh. It was found that some of his confessions were inaccurate with the unreleased details.
Stefanie was a 21 year old white female at the time of her disappearance. She had brown hair and brown eyes. She was 5'5" and 130 lbs. She has a birthmark on the instep of her right foot, pierced ears and was wearing a black shirt, black tank top, black corduroy pants, brown ankle high boots and a wooden bead necklace.
SOURCES:
http://charleyproject.org/case/stefanie-kelly-stroh
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/15153
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1591dfnv.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lynn_Sells#Previous_crimes,_sentences,_and_mental_disorders
Stefanie was a friend. I google her name once in a while. Found this very recent post.
ReplyDeleteActually, the only reason he wasnt charged with the other murders is because he was already being charged in a death penalty case and more charges would have just kept him alive longer.
ReplyDeleteSells confessed while he was under the Texas Ranger's watch, this also didnt set well with the Authorities in Nevada. There was a conflict in what each believed. The Texas Rangers believe that Tommy Lynn Sells is responsible for Stefanie's disappearance and murder.
I lived with Stefanie's Dad Marven Stroh for 11 years, up until his death on July 26,2012.