Lisa Chambers

Date Disappeared:
November 10, 1982 from Boise, Idaho
Age When Disappeared:
14 years old

Missing Since:
November 10, 1982 from Boise, Idaho
Age When Disappeared:
14 years old
Remains Found:
November 25, 1982
Abductor/Murderer:
Found and Convicted 2008.

14-year-old Lisa Chambers left her Boise home the morning of November 10, 1982 headed to Fairmont Junior High. She never made it to school. Her parents reported her missing that evening.

On November 14, Lisa's school books were found in a trash bin at the Flying J Truck Stop on Overland Road. On November 25, Thanksgiving Day, hunters found Lisa's body in a cornfield near the corner of Lake Hazel and Five Mile. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

As news of Chambers' death circulated through the community, people started calling with hundreds of tips. One of those came from a woman who believed she saw Lisa Chambers on a road near the fairgrounds in Garden City. The witness told deputies the girl was with a man in a pick-up truck and provided detectives with a license plate number. Those detectives followed that lead and many, many others but were unable to uncovered enough evidence to arrest a suspect in the killing.

In April of 2007, federal official's notified Ada County detectives that DNA entered into the Combined DNA Index System matched DNA found on Lisa Chamber's body 25 years ago. That DNA belonged to Wesley Tuttle, 55, who was serving prison time on a second degree murder charge out of Utah.

Tuttle was shipped from a prison in Utah to face murder charges for the death of Lisa Chambers in Ada County in 1982. Tuttle pleaded guilty in court, after prosecutors say Tuttle's DNA matched fluids found on the 14-year-old's body at the crime scene.