Damaris Synge Gillispie was 22 and a senior honors student at Boston University when she disappeared on the evening of November 29, 1972. She left her Cambridge apartment to hitchhike to her job as a cocktail waitress at The Jazz Workshop and never returned. Roommates and family launched an intensive search, distributing over 20,000 posters and running a 24-hour hotline after she failed to come home.

On February 3, 1973, two children found her nude body in a snow-covered wooded area in Billerica, about 20 miles from Boston. An autopsy determined she had been strangled around the time of her disappearance. During the investigation into a series of linked killings known as the Hitchhike Murders, police pursued and arrested Anthony Jackson after a December 1972 high-speed chase and shootout. Items connected to Gillispie were recovered, including photographs of her among hundreds of nude images found in a metal box.

Anyone with memories of Damaris, her routes between Cambridge and The Jazz Workshop, or information about that period is asked to come forward.