08/18/2026
Thank you for telling Alicia’s story, we pray to one day have answers and closure… 💔❤️🩹🙏
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Alicia Markovich was only 15 years old when she disappeared on Sunday, April 26, 1987, from Blairsville, Pennsylvania. She had been picked up by her father, John Markovich, from her home in Windber to spend the day with him. According to John, the two argued about Alicia’s school grades, her choice of friends, and her mother’s request for an increase in child support. Alicia became upset and walked out of his home on the 100 block of Dunn Avenue. John said he told her to be home by 8 p.m. and believed she would walk to a nearby trailer park where a friend lived. Alicia’s mother, Marcie, tried calling her several times that day because she needed Alicia home early for school the next morning, but Alicia never answered. Around 1 a.m., Marcie received a call from John saying Alicia had not returned and that he had gone looking for her. However, Alicia’s friend, identified as “C.G.,” said John never called or knocked on his door looking for Alicia.
Alicia was a white female with brown hair and blue eyes, approximately 5’2” tall and weighing 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white crop top with red, yellow and blue stripes, jeans and white sneakers, and she was carrying purple sunglasses. Her other belongings were left behind. Marcie has always maintained that Alicia had no history of running away and was not street smart. Investigators eventually believed Alicia was likely murdered and that whatever happened to her probably occurred on the day she disappeared. In October 2000, John received a typed letter claiming Alicia had been killed and buried at a specific location. The letter was postmarked from New Bedford, New Hampshire, but the people living at the return address denied sending it or knowing anything about Alicia. Police searched the location named in the letter with search dogs but found nothing, and the letter was determined to be a hoax. In April 2011, Alicia’s baby teeth were submitted for DNA testing to compare with the remains of an unidentified woman known as “Penny Doe,” but the remains were ruled out as Alicia.
There has been no activity on Alicia’s bank account or Social Security number since 1987, and her case remains unsolved more than 39 years later. Somewhere, someone may know what happened to this 15-year-old girl who simply walked away that afternoon and never came home. Alicia’s family has spent decades without knowing where she is or what happened to her. If you have any information about Alicia Markovich’s disappearance, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at 724-832-3288. Please share Alicia’s story—someone may recognize a detail, remember something they saw or heard, or finally have the information needed to bring answers to her family.
