Nancy Lee Paiva was 36 and a mother of two teenage daughters when she was last seen on July 7, 1988, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After a reported argument with her boyfriend she was observed walking home from Whisper’s Pub in the city’s South End. Investigators say she was strangled.

On July 30, 1988, two men on motorcycles found her nude body beside Interstate 195 in Dartmouth. Her death was later linked to at least eight other female victims from 1988–1989 in what investigators called the New Bedford Highway Killings. The boyfriend was questioned early in the inquiry and cleared; no one has been arrested or charged in Paiva’s killing.

The case remains unsolved and her family has had no public resolution. If anyone knew Nancy, saw her on July 7, 1988, or has information about the Highway Killings, please come forward.