‘If I Don’t Come Back, Look For Me’ — The Disappearance of High Schooler Hang Lee

She vanished in 1993, and her case has connections to another Twin Cities missing teen — and a dangerous sex offender.

Hang Lee, who disappeared in 1993 (Image: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

It was the beginning of 1993, and 17-year-old Hang Lee had received a call from a friend asking if she’d be interested in a job. Hang already worked at a restaurant but, keen for some extra hours, she decided to go and check it out.

She would never be seen alive again and, 30 years on, her family has been left in a torturous limbo as they wonder what happened to her.

But there is one individual who may hold the answers: the person with whom she was last seen, who also happens to be a convicted sex offender with links to a case involving another missing Twin Cities girl.

After all these years, can police ever hope to join up the dots and prove what they have suspected for decades?

Hang disappears

Hang Lee was a senior at Highland Park Senior High School who dreamed of becoming a writer and planned to go to the University of Minnesota after she graduated. Described as sweet-natured, Hang gave the money she earned serving at a local restaurant to her father to help feed their…