Details of Lisa's Disappearance

After graduating from the University of West Florida in Pensacola with a degree in Accounting Information Systems, Lisa Wallace Geise was contacted by a headhunter and asked to travel to Norcross, Georgia to interview for an available position as a computer programmer for Larson-Juhl, a well established manufacturer and distributor of custom picture frames. She was offered the position and worked there almost a year. On February 26, 1989, a physical inventory was conducted. Later that afternoon Lisa returned to the office to run the computer routine that posted the inventory. While the routine was running, Lisa went home for supper, returning to the office later (around 9:00 p.m.) to complete the task and enable the computer system to be used when the staff came to work the next morning.

Lisa shared her apartment with a friend from Pensacola, and another friend from Pensacola was visiting. They retired for the night, expecting that Lisa would be home soon. They were awakened early the next morning by a phone call from an employee at Larson Juhl trying to make contact with Lisa. There had been a fire at her workstation that had activated the sprinkler system, and her workstation area was flooded. It was then that the friends realized that Lisa had not come home and immediately called the police.

After about two hours of extracting the water at Lisa’s work area, someone noticed that blood was mingled with the water. It became apparent that something terrible had happened. The police began a search. Lisa’s car was found parked some distance from Larson-Juhl in another part of the same business park. The license tag had been removed, and the items from the glove compartment scattered. Lisa’s friends were frantically calling Lisa’s pager. Some men working on the roof of a building in the office complex near the Larson-Juhl building heard the pager ringing and subsequently found Lisa’s purse and pager that had been thrown on top of the building. Her jacket was also found discarded nearby.

Later in the week a blood-stained cloth mail cart, belonging to Larson-Juhl, was found at the bottom of a ravine in the office park. Another item that had been used as a door stop in the office was located and determined to be the weapon used to hit Lisa. Blood spatters found on the wall indicated the force with which she was hit. The quantity of blood, the pattern of the spatters and other evidence indicated the strike was on her head and was severe enough to kill her. But, there was no body. Blood was found in the company van that had been parked in the back of the building which made the police realize that the van had been used to move Lisa’s body away from the building. The area was searched, but no trace of Lisa was found, and her remains still have not been located at the time of this writing over two decades later.

Nothing was stolen from Larson-Juhl the night Lisa was murdered; however, there is evidence of unsuccessful attempts made by an intruder to gain entrance to the computer system. It was apparent that someone had tried to delete the inventory and maliciously removed information from at least one of the computers. The keys to the company van, used to remove Lisa from the site, were taken from an inconspicuous place in the office where they were normally kept, indicating the intruder was familiar with the building. It appeared that someone had entered the building while Lisa was gone and attacked her when she returned and discovered him in the building. All of the employees were questioned and eliminated as suspects except for one person who had been recently fired from Larson-Juhl. That person had been fired for falsifying his credentials. In addition, unknown to Larson Juhl, he was on probation for embezzlement from a public utility while he was employed by Larson-Juhl. More concerning that individual can be found in newspaper articles on this website. He was the only person who refused to cooperate with the investigators, and he was the one person the investigators could not eliminate as a suspect. That individual continues to refuse to speak to the police about that night.

Over the past 20 years, the case has been investigated by many different law enforcement officials as well as private detectives hired by Lisa’s family. All have come to the same conclusion regarding the scenario of what happened that evening. Currently, the case is still active and in the hands of the criminal investigators of the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s office where evidence is being investigated with techniques that were not available in 1989.

Since the worldwide web also was not available in 1989, this is an untapped avenue in the investigation concerning Lisa’s murder. Please read the articles and sequence of events concerning this case found on this website. If anyone has even the smallest fragment of information, please make your comments at Info@solvelisascase.com. If you prefer, you may contact the investigators listed under the Investigating Agency tab. Lisa’s family continues to be determined to learn the details of what happened to Lisa and locate her remains in order to provide an appropriate, Christian burial.

Jean V. Wallace, Lisa’s mother