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On the morning of August 9, 1976, a trucker found two bodies beside a secluded dirt road in Sumter County, South Carolina. A young woman and a man had been shot multiple times with a .357 caliber revolver, suffering fatal wounds to the upper chest and neck. For decades they were buried as Jane Doe and Jock Doe after being found without identification.

The woman was identified in January 2021 as 24-year-old Pamela Mae Buckley, who had been reported missing from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in December 1975. The man was later identified as James Paul Freund. Their bodies were exhumed in 2007 for DNA testing; identification came through the DNA Doe Project. No arrests have been announced since the identifications.

A person of interest named Lonnie George Henry was arrested for drunken driving in 1977; the revolver he had at that time was determined to be the murder weapon, but authorities said there was insufficient evidence to charge him and he died in 1982. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas also surfaced in connection with the case because he claimed to have been in South Carolina then, though his confessions are known to be unreliable. The investigation remains open.

If anyone knew Pamela Buckley or James Freund, or recalls their travels or associates in late 1975 and 1976, please share what is known with investigators.