Vickie Lynn Harrell, a 25-year-old Caucasian woman, was last seen on August 12, 1972, getting into her dark blue 1965 Plymouth Valiant in the K-Mart parking lot on Bloomington’s east side. Her roommate reported her missing to the Bloomington Police Department on August 13 when she did not return to their Spencer home.

On August 14 a highway worker found Vickie’s nude body face-down in a water-filled ditch along Concord Road, an access road to McCormick’s Creek State Park, a few miles east of Spencer. An autopsy determined she had been strangled, possibly with a rope, and the letters KN had been carved into her chest after death. Her car was later located abandoned near the College Mall in Bloomington, miles from where her body was discovered.

Indiana State Police, the Owen County Sheriff’s Department and the Bloomington Police Department all investigated, and theories including a possible link to other similar cases were raised. No arrests have been announced and the murder remains unsolved. If anyone knew Vickie, saw her that day, or has information about the dark blue 1965 Plymouth Valiant, please come forward.