Marcy Jo Andrews, 24, lived on Chicago’s northwest side and was in a fragile but hopeful phase in early 1984 after completing rehab and enrolling in college. She worked at a publishing company, lived with her step-grandmother, kept close contact with her mother and stepfather, and had plans to move to Kentucky to be near an aunt. On February 14, 1984, what began as a planned visit to the botanical gardens ended with Marcy at the West Iowa Street apartment of a man she had not met before, Casey Nowicki. After drinking and using drugs with two friends, Nowicki drove the group; his car struck a concrete viaduct and Marcy suffered a severe ankle injury. Rather than receive hospital care, she was returned to Nowicki’s apartment and was last seen by her friends there.

Family concern grew when Marcy missed work, left an uncashed paycheck, and $91 in her bank account remained untouched. Years later witnesses told investigators they saw Marcy restrained and drugged at Nowicki’s apartment on February 15, and one witness, Michael John Panisi, said he later found her body wrapped in a rug and watched Nowicki put the body into a car trunk. In 2000 Nowicki was charged in connection with Marcy’s death and was later convicted of rape and murder despite her body never having been recovered. Does anyone have memories or information about Marcy’s last known movements or the West Iowa Street address in February 1984?