Family still seeks clues in girl's disappearance

It's been two decades since Elizabeth Ann Campbell disappeared, and her family is no closer to knowing where she might be than they were all those years ago when she first was reported missing.

Miss Campbell disappeared on April 25, 1988.

Police reports note she got into a fight with her boyfriend and used a pay phone around midnight at a Copperas Cove 7-11 convenience store off U.S. Highway 190.

She was wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a faded yellow jacket, and the work smock from the store where she worked was draped over her arm. Miss Campbell also carried a maroon purse.

In 1992, the Crockett County Sheriff's Department in Ozona located Miss Campbell's purse in a property room at the department. How it got there and how long it had been there remain unknown.

Since Miss Campbell's disappearance in 1988, her parents, Sam Soon and Tom Campbell, and daughter, Barbara, have devoted much of their time and financial resources in repeated attempts to locate their missing daughter.

Every lead has been investigated, but to no avail.

The Campbells moved from Lampasas to Killeen in 1993, and still follow any leads that come their way -- though they are fewer as time goes on.

But the family does not intend to give up hope.

Somewhere, they believe, is someone who knows what happened to their daughter.

And they continue to wait -- and to hold out hope that a resolution will be forthcoming.