In the fall of 1983 Sarpy County, Nebraska was already on edge after the September abduction and murder of 13-year-old Danny Joe Eberle. On the morning of December 2, 1983, 12-year-old Christopher Walden, a White male, asked his mother for permission to walk to school; she agreed and that was the last time she saw him alive. Christopher did not arrive at school, and a search followed. His body was found on December 5, 1983, in a wooded area near Giles and Portal Roads.

An autopsy revealed he had been stabbed multiple times and strangled. The community’s fear deepened when investigators linked Christopher’s killing to the earlier murder of Danny Eberle. In January 1984 a lead from a preschool teacher identified John Joubert, an airman at Offutt Air Force Base; he was arrested on January 11, 1984, and confessed to abducting and killing both boys, saying he had been looking for lone children. Joubert later pleaded guilty to the murders.

Did anyone in Sarpy County at the time notice a suspicious vehicle or a man hanging around the routes children took to school?