Delvoyd Lee Baker was 14 when he disappeared from downtown Indianapolis on the evening of October 2, 1982. He had ridden his bicycle into the city and phoned his parents about 10:30 p.m., saying he would be late because he wanted to see a movie, despite having no money. Witnesses last saw him near the Marion County Central Library getting into a blue van driven by a young white man with a bushy mustache.

His body was found the next morning, October 3, in a drainage ditch alongside Lantern Road near Fishers in Hamilton County. He was semi-nude and died of ligature strangulation. His killing has been linked to a series of similar Midwest slayings between 1980 and 1991 attributed to an unidentified offender dubbed the I-70 Strangler; Delvoyd was the youngest and the only Black victim associated with that string of cases.

Investigators questioned several people but no one was ever charged. Duncan V. Patterson admitted paying Delvoyd for a sexual act but said he returned him to the library; he passed a polygraph and was cleared. August F. Gus Caito refused to answer grand jury questions and was jailed for contempt, yet no charges followed. The case remains cold and unresolved. Does anyone have information about Delvoyd’s last movements near the library or the blue van?