In the spring of 1972 William Clark Coit Jr., a 44-year-old engineer, was fatally shot in New Orleans on March 29. He was found with two gunshot wounds to his back; investigators described the wounds as consistent with an apparent intruder. Coit had initiated divorce proceedings against his wife, Jill Coit, about three weeks earlier. At the time of his death he and Jill had two children together and he had adopted her son from a previous marriage.

Police quickly focused on Jill Coit; detectives noted that two of her prior husbands had also died under mysterious circumstances. Investigators were unable to develop enough evidence to charge her. Jill, then 28 or 29, checked herself into a psychiatric hospital claiming acute hysteria and emotional distress, a move that stalled questioning. No one was ever charged in William Coit Jr.’s killing and the case remains unsolved.

Does anyone have memories, records, or leads about William Coit Jr. or his life in New Orleans in 1972 that could shed light on what happened?