Teresa Williams was 13 when she disappeared from the Fairview Estates neighborhood of Russellville, Arkansas on December 2, 1976. She vanished along with two friends, 14-year-old Crystal Donita Parton and 13-year-old Cynthia Mabry; authorities initially treated the case as a possible runaway situation.

A decade later, in 1986, skeletal remains found near a secluded road by Brock Cemetery in northern Pope County were identified by dental records as Teresa Williams and Crystal Donita Parton. Both had suffered stab wounds to the neck. Cynthia Mabry’s remains were never recovered.

In March 1998, James B. Grinder, then in custody in Missouri, confessed to killing the three girls, giving details that investigators said only the killer would know. He described picking them up near Russellville, luring them with alcohol, driving them to the Brock Cemetery area, and assaulting and killing Teresa and Crystal. He also claimed to have taken Cynthia to the Ozark National Forest and killed her. Grinder pleaded guilty and was later sentenced to life in prison; he died of natural causes in prison in 2010.

Did anyone in Russellville at the time recognize Grinder or remember seeing a vehicle he described near the Fairview Estates on December 2, 1976?