Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 08/15/1993
- Missing From:
- Missing From Wishek, North Dakota
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Age:
- Age 30 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’4, 110 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Diede’s birth name was Valerie Gobel.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On August 15, 1993, Diede and her boyfriend, Robert, left their two children with their grandparents in North Dakota. Later that day, Diede called friends, saying she was having trouble getting her kids back. After visiting her brother, they headed home, but disappeared.
Their Dodge van was found abandoned 100 miles away in South Dakota on August 20th, the day they were reported missing. They left everything behind at their Minnesota home. Diede was getting a divorce.
Police initially thought they ran away, but Diede’s family knew she wouldn’t leave her children. Investigators now believe both Diede and Robert were murdered, but the case remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Logan County Sheriff’s Department 701-754-2495
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 08/15/1993