Nikia Kay Tucker Gilbreath, 23, vanished from her Villanow, Georgia home on August 17, 1989. Her husband Joe returned from work to find their toddler daughter Amber alone; Nikia and her car were missing. Her vehicle was found the next day on an unpaved logging road, and a few days later a ragpicker discovered her body at an illegal trash dump in the woods near LaFayette.

The autopsy found Nikia five months pregnant and the cause of death was asphyxiation from paper towels forced down her throat; she also had three broken ribs and ligature marks on her wrists and ankles. Her unborn son Garrett also died. Investigators later connected Jamie Ray Ward to the crime after he surfaced in a separate abduction probe; Ward had been seen working on the Gilbreath property earlier in the year and a notebook of his included Nikia’s address with the notation fine looking, along with newspaper clippings and some of her missing garments.

In July 1991 Ward was convicted of kidnapping with bodily injury, feticide, and murder and was sentenced to death. Did anyone in Villanow or LaFayette remember seeing Nikia, her car, or anyone suspicious around August 17, 1989?