A project of the Yakima Herald-Republic
MYSTERIOUS DEATH

Lesora Yvette Eli

Vanished:
Feb. 12, 1982

Narrative

A farmer found her fully clothed body face down in a drainage ditch along Parton Road near Toppenish on Feb. 2, 1982. While the Yakima County Coroner’s Office listed the death as accidental drowning, FBI investigators in a memo that year described it as a possible homicide.