Linda Marie Pagano was 17 when she disappeared from Akron, Ohio, on September 1, 1974. She was last seen returning to her stepfather Byron Claflin’s apartment after attending a rock concert with her boyfriend; an argument that night ended with Claflin throwing her out, and that was the last time anyone saw her alive.

On February 5, 1975, partial skeletal remains of a young woman were found in a park in Strongsville, Ohio. Those remains were identified as Linda Pagano in 2018 after DNA testing. The autopsy showed Linda had been shot in the head and was buried in an unmarked grave.

No arrests have been made. Byron Claflin, long considered the primary suspect because of his volatile temper and the argument with Linda, died in 1990. The identification of Linda’s remains followed the discovery of the unmarked grave in 2015 and later exhumation for DNA testing, but the killer has not been identified.

Did anyone who knew Linda or her circle in 1974 have information that could help finally solve this case?