Curtis is from Bountiful, Utah. She was attending the Bountiful Orchard Youth Conference at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah when she disappeared. She was an athletic teenager and had ridden her bicycle fifty miles from Bountiful to Provo to attend the conference, which was scheduled to last two days. She was last seen on June 27, 1975, the first day of the conference. That evening, following a formal banquet, Curtis left her friends to walk back to her dormitory and brush her teeth. The distance was about a quarter of a mile. She has never been heard from again.

The serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to Curtis's murder before his 1989 execution. He stated he'd buried her body along a highway near Price, Utah, but a search of the site turned up no evidence. A photo of Bundy is posted below this case summary. He said he buried her body in Price, Utah. Curtis has never been located, but it is believed she was one of his victims. Other young women who are still listed as missing persons but believed to be Bundy's victims include Nancy Baird, Ann Marie Burr, Lynette Culver, Julie Cunningham, Georgeann Hawkins, Vicki Hollar, Rita Jolly, Debra Kent, Donna Manson, Denise Oliverson, Nancy Wilcox and others.

Above: Bundy, circa 1980s