Lisa Ann Beery was 15 when she was kidnapped at knifepoint on January 26, 1974, while hitchhiking near her home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet and dumped in a shallow grave in a deserted area of Contra Costa County; her remains were discovered five years later in Moraga, California.

Philip Joseph Hughes Jr., known as The East Bay Strangler, was later linked to multiple Contra Costa County murders of the 1970s, including the killings of Maureen Field in 1972, Lisa Beery in 1974, and Letitia Fagot in 1975. In July 1979 Perrin provided information to police that helped obtain a search warrant for Hughes’ Pleasanton home and led to evidence connected to Beery’s murder. Hughes was convicted on April 3, 1980, of first-degree murder in Lisa Beery’s death, found legally sane at the time, and sentenced to life in prison on May 21, 1980.

Did anyone in the area know Lisa, her travel habits, or see a vehicle or people hitchhiking near her home that day?