Sandra Talbott was 27 when she disappeared from El Dorado, Kansas, after being dropped off at St. John’s Church to play bingo on the evening of July 10, 1977. She walked with a cane and had a pronounced limp from a prior car accident. Her mother reported her missing the next day; initial inquiries considered she might have hitchhiked to Wichita, and there were unconfirmed reports of Sandra in a Wichita bar on July 13 talking with two unidentified men.

On July 30, 1977 a partially decomposed body was found in a treeline in rural southwestern Sedgwick County near 111th Street South and 231st Street West. The body had been there an estimated three weeks. An autopsy determined Sandra had been killed and suffered sharp-instrument injuries; when found she wore a leg brace and several rings and had one article of clothing wrapped around an ankle.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office assigned about twenty detectives and deputies and followed multiple leads, but no arrests or publicly named suspects were announced. Does anyone remember Sandra, the bingo night, or the two men reportedly seen with her in Wichita?