She worked at the Buôn Ma Thuột leper colony where she was taken as a prisoner of war (POW) on May 30, 1962.
[8] Vietti attended San Jacinto High School (Houston, Texas).
[3] After graduation, Vietti attended Rice University and studied for a summer at Nyack Missionary College.
[9] She worked in Buôn Ma Thuột at a Christian and Missionary Alliance leper colony.
[12] In April 1962, Vietti came back to the United States and visited with her family in Houston and St.
[3] On May 30, 1962, Vietti, Archie E. Mitchell and Daniel A. Gerber[13] were kidnapped by 12 Viet Cong guerillas.
[19] In 1998, Maggie O'Kane reported about Vietti and her capture on a radio special called The Only Woman Left Behind.
[20][21] In 2008, Nyack College honored her and other alumni who were lost in Vietnam, adding their names to a special stone bench on campus.