On the night of February 1, 1982, 16-year-old Sherry Lynn Alford was found dead near her white Ford EXP on northbound Highway 139 in Monroe, Louisiana. Her watch stopped at 11:57 p.m. The car had been stopped in the lane and her body lay nearby. Investigators determined she had been shot twice with a handgun: an initial shot fired from a distance shattered the driver’s side window and struck her wrist and lower lip roughly three-tenths of a mile before the car stopped, and a second, fatal shot was fired to her head as she appeared to be leaving the vehicle. An automatic shell casing was recovered and investigators believe the shooter stood in or near the middle of the road.

No arrests have been made and no suspects have been officially named. Sherry’s killing is one of three unsolved murders of young women in Monroe between 1980 and 1982, along with Angie Hill and Kathy Whorton, and the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office continues to treat the case as active. Does anyone have information about Sherry’s movements that night or about similar incidents on Highway 139?