Fifteen-year-old Judy Ann Adams disappeared from Morgan City, Louisiana, on the night of May 11, 1978. She and a friend, 14-year-old Bertha Gould, were returning from the Central Catholic High School fair when a witness saw the two girls get into a white car driven by an unknown man. That was the last time Judy Ann was seen alive.

On May 26 her body was recovered from a septic tank in nearby Bayou Vista. She had been bound and strangled. A second body in the same tank, 19-year-old Bridget Cantrell Sons, was also found. Investigators later focused on Robert Carl Hohenberger, a former California sheriff’s deputy with a history of abduction and rape who had used an alias in Louisiana and was suspected in multiple killings over a three-month span.

Hohenberger died by suicide in June 1978 as authorities moved to apprehend him, leaving unanswered questions about the full scope of the crimes and any additional victims. If anyone knew Judy Ann’s movements that night or saw a white car in Morgan City on May 11, please come forward with information.