In March 1986, 16-year-old Aleta Carol Bunch drove her blue Mustang to the Regency Mall in Augusta for a modeling assignment and shopping. She was last seen leaving the mall at about 3:30 p.m. on March 4. Eleven days later her body was found in a remote, wooded area; investigators concluded she had been the victim of a brutal attack that left her shot five times — once in the chest and four times in the head — and nude from the waist down. The scene showed signs of a struggle.

Police arrested 17-year-old Alexander Edmund Williams IV on March 12 after witnesses placed him driving a blue Mustang that was later identified as Bunch’s and after he was linked to use of her parents’ credit cards. Investigators say Williams made incriminating statements to friends admitting he met a girl at the mall, forced her into her car, drove to a secluded spot, sexually assaulted her and shot her. In August 1986 a Richmond County jury convicted Williams of murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping with bodily injury, motor vehicle theft and financial transaction card fraud.

Does anyone have memories of Aleta or information about the Regency Mall on March 4, 1986 that could shed more light on her last known movements?