On April 5, 1976 a burned green 1971 Chrysler station wagon was found on a remote woods road off Route 9 in Amherst, Maine. Inside the car was the badly burned body of 43-year-old James Cassidy of Brookline, Massachusetts; dental records identified him. Investigators concluded the fire had been set intentionally and treated the case as a homicide.

Cassidy was an executive at the Brookline Trust Company and was facing a warrant for arrest in connection with the embezzlement of $1.1 million. His wife, Alice, reported him missing early on April 5 after he failed to return from work. He had been seen that day in Portland and Bangor, Maine, and an anonymous call to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office led police to the torched vehicle. The autopsy showed fatal burns over more than 95 percent of his body and significant bruising consistent with a violent struggle. Composite sketches were later released of two men believed to have rented a vehicle in the Bangor area, and Cassidy’s mail-order stamp business was also examined, but no arrests were made and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the Portland or Bangor area in April 1976 remember seeing Cassidy, the green Chrysler, or men renting a car between April 5 and April 8?