DENVER (CN) — Jeffrey Lynn Smith was 16 years old the last time her family saw her in Hot Springs, Arkansas on Dec. 4, 1985.
Four decades later, Smith’s big sister, Lisa Allen, is still looking for her. At CrimeCon in Denver on Friday, Allen held up her sister’s picture alongside a wall covered with hundreds of images of missing persons, both recent and from long ago.
“Everything that I do, I do in her name,” said Allen, who works as a consultant for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Like many attendees of the annual true crime conference, Allen believes talking about losing her sister can still bring her justice, no matter how much time has passed…