El Camino

A Chevrolet El Camino pulled from Oregon's Willamette River revives an all but forgotten missing persons case. Jessie Devonshire and Randy Mendelson were gone, and in the apparent absence of solid evidence, the case had turned as cold as the dark waters where they had lain for three decades.

Jessie was the fifteen-year-old step-daughter of a rising star in local politics, and Randy was the family's twenty-year-old landscaper. The immediate conclusion was that the two had struck up a romantic...