On the morning of May 17, 1974, 28-year-old Russell James Foote was shot and killed in his car while driving to his job as director of the Lafayette, Louisiana Red Cross. He left behind his wife, Jacqueline, three young sons and a daughter. The killing produced no immediate arrests and the case went cold.

Decades later the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office reopened the investigation and identified a primary suspect, Gwen Ganey, a Red Cross volunteer at the time who had reportedly been confronted by Foote about discrepancies in the organization’s finances shortly before his death. The original investigator believed she was culpable; a polygraph administered to Ganey reportedly indicated deception on questions about the murder, but no direct evidence was found and no charges were filed.

Foote’s son Kevin, who became a journalist, has publicly worked to keep the case in the spotlight. Does anyone have information about Russell Foote, Gwen Ganey, or the Lafayette Red Cross in 1974 that could help bring new leads?