Gina Marie Gallo was 21 and living at the Laurel Notch Motel on Route 206 in Bordentown Township, New Jersey, where she also worked as a night clerk. On November 16, 1981, she was last seen wearing a brown ski jacket and blue jeans; her boyfriend, who shared the motel room, said she left to hitchhike to Quakerbridge Mall in nearby Lawrence Township and never arrived.

For years the case produced few answers and remained cold. On November 28, 1997, hunters found a human skull on a trash pile in wooded Mercer County adjacent to Interstate 295, a couple of miles south of Quakerbridge Mall. Forensic dental comparison to preserved dental records identified the skull as Gina Marie Gallo’s. Only partial remains were recovered, and the circumstances of her disappearance and death are unresolved.

Did anyone in the area in November 1981 notice a woman matching Gina’s description or recall seeing someone hitchhiking toward Quakerbridge Mall?