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Debra Colliander, 25, was abducted on June 23, 1980, from a shopping center parking lot in Aurora, Illinois, and taken to the apartment of Bruce Lindahl, where she was raped. She escaped after Lindahl fell asleep and reported the assault to police. Lindahl was arrested and charged but released on bail. On October 7, 1980, Colliander vanished after leaving work; her trial later scheduled for 1981 was canceled because she did not appear and the charges against Lindahl were dropped.

In 1982 a decomposed body identified as Colliander was found in a cornfield in Oswego. Investigators later received information that a man had been offered money by Lindahl to kill Colliander so she could not testify, which gave authorities a clear motive to suspect Lindahl in her murder. Lindahl died in 1981 from an apparently self-inflicted slash to a major artery while stabbing another victim to death.

What did anyone in Aurora or Oswego remember about Colliander’s last day of work on October 7, 1980?