Judy Smith, a 50-year-old woman from Newton, Massachusetts, disappeared in Philadelphia on April 10, 1997. She had left the hotel where her husband Jeffrey was attending a business conference to go sightseeing and did not return that evening. Her husband reported her missing and searches in the Philadelphia area produced several reported sightings that did not yield a confirmed lead.

On September 7, 1997, hunters in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina found skeletal remains in a shallow grave about 600 miles from where Judy was last seen. Dental records identified the remains as hers. Investigators found cuts on her bra and markings on her bones, and concluded Judy had been stabbed to death. She was wearing hiking clothes different from what she had worn when she left the Philadelphia hotel.

Jeffrey Smith was at one point a person of interest but was later ruled out because of severe health issues that made involvement unlikely; he died in 2005. A possible link to Gary Michael Hilton has been suggested but no evidence has tied him to Judy’s murder. No arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved. Does anyone have memories or information about Judy’s travel in April 1997 or sightings in the Philadelphia or Asheville areas?