Tina Lynn Wilkerson was 20 when she was found murdered near Lake Station, Indiana. After attending her fiancé Richard Sleziak’s funeral, she was last seen walking near Indiana State Road 51 about 2:00 a.m. on August 14, 1995. A witness had also seen someone trying to start her 1981 Buick station wagon earlier that night; the car was later recovered abandoned.

On the morning of August 15, 1995, Tina’s nude body was discovered in brush along Marquette Road by the baseball fields at Four Winds Park. She had suffered multiple stab wounds and a severe cut across her neck, with defensive wounds on her hands. Investigators concluded she was likely killed elsewhere and moved to the scene. Authorities believe she probably knew her attacker; many people were questioned and one person of interest failed a polygraph, but no charges were filed.

The case remains cold. Did anyone in the Lake Station area at that time have information about Tina, her 1981 Buick station wagon, or who she might have known?