Roberta Joseph Hayes was last seen alive February 7, 1987, when she was released from the custody of the Portland, Oregon, Police Department after an arrest for prostitution. On September 11, 1991, more than four years after she was last seen, a Washington State Parks employee discovered Roberta's skeletal remains. She was killed by the Green River Killer Gary Ridgway.
Over fifty hours of footage altogether was shot for this film.
Shot over a period of fifty-five days.
Picked by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the "50 Greatest Independent Films" in a special supplement devoted to independent films that was only distributed to subscribers in November 1997.