Cara Evelyn Knott (February 11, 1966 – December 27, 1986) was an American student at San Diego State University who disappeared on December 27, 1986 while driving from her boyfriend's home in Escondido, California to her parents' house in El Cajon.
The following day on December 28, her car was found below a 65-foot bridge at the bottom of a ravine, near an abandoned off-ramp in San Diego County.
Her killer, Craig Allen Peyer (b.
March 16, 1950), was a police officer and 13-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
At Peyer's trial, it was revealed that he had been targeting women along the interstate and had made predatory sexual advances on multiple female drivers.