On August 9, 1974, 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and her 16-year-old friend Lorraine Kelly left their homes in North Bergen, New Jersey, intending to shop for bathing suits at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus. The last confirmed sighting placed the pair on Broad Avenue in Ridgefield, reportedly hitchhiking and getting into a vehicle driven by an unknown white man. Mary Ann’s sister described her as feisty and independent; Mary Ann had told her older sister Nancy she would see her later, a promise that was not kept.

When Mary Ann, who always carried a dime to call home, failed to return that evening, the families mounted a frantic search. On August 14, 1974, the nude and battered bodies of both girls were found in a wooded area in Montvale, about twenty miles from where they were last seen. Both had been sexually assaulted and died of asphyxiation; the scene suggested prolonged torture prior to death. Investigators pursued numerous leads and persons of interest over the ensuing decades, but the case remained unresolved for many years.

Did anyone in the community remember either girl’s movements that summer or see a vehicle matching the description on Broad Avenue that day?