On a September evening in 1985, 15-year-old Kimberly Dowell and 16-year-old Ethan Dixon went to Westside Park in Muncie. A patrol officer found Ethan’s Volkswagen Rabbit running and both teens shot inside; Kimberly had a gunshot wound to the temple and Ethan a fatal torso wound. The passenger-side window had been shattered by a gunshot. There were no obvious signs of robbery or a struggle, and no clear motive was identified.

Early suspicion briefly focused on a family member of one of the teenagers, but no charges followed. The investigation stretched across decades; by 2018 investigators had named a person of interest who was incarcerated for another murder and sought a DNA sample. No arrests have ever been made and the killings remain officially unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Kimberly or Ethan at the time notice anything unusual about their plans that night or about activity at Westside Park?