On the evening of August 24, 1975, 24-year-old Pamela Ann Smith left her home in Greens Fork, Indiana, for a walk and did not return. Newly married five months, she told her husband Gerold Smith she would not be long; when she failed to come back he searched and then reported her missing.

Seven months later, on March 30, 1976, a highway worker found human remains in a cornfield in eastern Henry County about 20 miles from her home. Identification was made by dental records and by the wedding ring still on her finger. The remains were badly decomposed; an autopsy noted a skull fracture and a sharp-instrument wound to the right arm, but decomposition prevented a precise determination of cause and timing of those injuries. Investigators ruled the death a homicide and said the body’s location suggested little effort had been made to conceal the crime.

Despite an Indiana State Police investigation and various theories including stranger abduction and possible links to other crimes of the era, no arrests have been reported and the case remains open. Did anyone in Greens Fork or eastern Henry County in 1975–76 have information about Pamela’s last evening or about strangers seen in the area?