Two North Bergen teenagers disappeared after a trip to a Paramus mall on August 9, 1974. Sixteen-year-old Lorraine Kelly and 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor were dropped at a bus stop that afternoon and failed to return home; Mary Ann’s family noted she always kept a dime for a phone call and did not check in. Their bodies were found five days later, on August 14, behind an apartment complex on Rolling Ridge Road in Montvale.

Both girls were discovered naked and had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled or suffocated. The killings prompted a large investigation that produced few significant leads for decades, and the families were left without answers as the case went cold.

Investigators later connected the murders to Richard Cottingham, a serial killer already serving life sentences; in spring 2021 he confessed, saying he abducted the girls, held them in a motel room, assaulted them, drowned them in a bathtub, and left their bodies in the woods. Does anyone from North Bergen or Paramus in 1974 recall seeing Lorraine or Mary Ann that day, or have information that wasn’t previously shared with investigators?