Betty Lee was a 36-year-old Navajo woman and mother of five who was murdered on June 8, 2000, in Farmington, New Mexico. A nursing student at Diné College, she had been out at a local bar called The Turnaround and was left without a ride. While trying to contact her brother from a payphone she accepted a ride from Robert Fry, who was accompanied by Leslie Engh.

When she resisted he stabbed her in the chest; she fled but was caught, struck with a sledgehammer and killed. Her body was concealed in nearby bushes and her clothing discarded in a ravine. The perpetrators reportedly became stuck in soft sand at the scene, which led to further efforts to leave.

Robert Fry was arrested three days later. In April 2002 he was convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and murder in connection with Lee’s death and received a death sentence for those crimes; he also received additional life terms for other murders. The state later abolished the death penalty in 2009. If anyone knew Betty Lee, her routines, or has information about that night, please share what you know.