Delvoyd Lee Baker was 14 when he disappeared after telling his parents he was going to the movies on the evening of October 2, 1982, in downtown Indianapolis. Witnesses saw him get into a blue van driven by a young white man with a bushy mustache near the downtown library. The next day his body was found in a drainage ditch along Lantern Road in Fishers, Indiana; an autopsy ruled the cause of death ligature strangulation.

Investigators questioned a 47-year-old Florida man, Duncan V. Patterson, who admitted to a paid sexual encounter with Delvoyd at a motel but said he dropped him at the library and saw him get into another vehicle; Patterson passed a polygraph and was not charged. A former Carmel businessman, August F. Gus Caito, was brought before a grand jury, refused to answer questions after being granted immunity, and was held in contempt, but no charges were filed. Some investigators later linked this and other I-70 corridor strangulation cases to a suspected serial offender, Herb Baumeister, though no arrest or conviction has been made in Delvoyd’s murder.

Does anyone have information about Delvoyd’s last movements downtown on October 2, 1982, or recall the blue van seen near the library?