On the night of March 12, 1977, 20-year-old Diane Collins was fatally shot while seated in a car at Adams Park in Atlanta, a location known locally as a lovers’ lane. Collins was on a date with her fiancé, Gordon Whitfield; Whitfield was also shot in the head but survived and drove them home, where he summoned help. The assailant fired six rounds from a .38 caliber pistol through the passenger-side window.

Investigators later linked Collins’s killing by ballistics to two earlier attacks with the same caliber weapon: an attack on January 16, 1977 that left LaBrian Lovett and Veronica Hill dead, and a February 12, 1977 incident in which Dennis Langston and Deitira Tatum were seriously injured but survived. Survivors from the February attack described the shooter as a tall Black male. The three shootings followed a roughly 28-day pattern and were called the Atlanta Lovers’ Lane killings; the attacks stopped after Collins’s murder and no suspect has been identified.

Does anyone have information about Diane Collins, the other victims, or those evenings at Adams Park that could shed light on this unsolved case?