01/10/2026
Roberta Jean Raines was just 19 years old when she vanished.
Nineteen. Still a teenager. Still at the beginning of her life.
Roberta disappeared from Toppen*sh, Washington on July 10, 2001, and more than two decades later, her family and community are still living with the same unanswered questions.
Roberta was a Native American young woman with brown eyes and black hair, standing between 5’0” and 5’3”, weighing about 120 pounds. She was someone’s daughter, someone’s friend, someone’s entire world.
The last person known to be with Roberta was Jose Merced Zamora.
Years later, after Zamora was apprehended in Idaho in 2007 for an unrelated homicide, he claimed that Roberta had fled to Mexico with him and then left him there — and that he never saw her again.
Those statements have never been verified.
What we do know is this:
Roberta never returned home.
She never contacted her family.
And she has never been located.
Too many Indigenous women disappear and are quietly forgotten.
Roberta deserves better than that.
Her family deserves the truth.
If you have any information at all about Roberta Jean Raines — no matter how small it may seem — please contact:
Toppen*sh Police Department
📞 (509) 865-4355
🗂 Case # MP57578
Or contact your local law enforcement agency.
Roberta’s story is not over.
Not while people are still looking.
Not while questions remain unanswered.
Not while her name is still being spoken.
Let’s keep it that way.
Source: Stolen Spirits MMIWG
