Missing
Kristen Joy Diede
Diede, approximately 1993; Anderson and Diede's van
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/15/1993
Missing location (approx) :
Wishek, North Dakota
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 30 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Diede's birth name was Valerie Gobel.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Diede and her boyfriend, Robert Anderson, dropped her son and daughter off at their paternal grandparents' home in Wishek, North Dakota on August 15, 1993. Diede called friends back home and said she was having trouble getting her children back. She and Anderson then stopped by to visit her brother before leaving to go back home. Neither of them has ever been heard from again.
The Dodge van they were driving was found abandoned over a hundred miles away at a railroad station parking lot in Aberdeen, South Dakota on August 20, the same day the pair were reported missing. A photo of the van is posted with this case summary.
Anderson and Diede are both from Minnesota. They left all their belongings behind at their home. Diede was in the process of a divorce at the time of her disappearance.
Authorities at first assumed the couple had left of their own accord, but Diede's loved ones never believed she would have abandoned her children. Authorities believe she and Anderson were homicide victims. Their cases remain unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Logan County Sheriff's Department
701-754-2495
North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation
800-472-2185
September 2021 updates and sources
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North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Kristin Joy Diede and Robert Michael Anderson -- The Search For Kristin Diede (born Valerie Goebel) and Robert Anderson
October 12, 2004. December 29, 2015; Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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