Leola Etta Bryant, 51, disappeared in March 1974 after she was last seen at the Midway Bar on Reynold’s Avenue in North Charleston, South Carolina. Her family reported her missing to the North Charleston Police Department, but the case went cold for decades.

In October 1977, workers clearing brush off Highway 52 in Goose Creek found scattered human remains that could only be classified at the time as belonging to a Black female. The victim remained unidentified for nearly 50 years and was known as the Berkeley County Jane Doe until recent forensic work.

Advances in forensic identification led to exhumation and testing. A facial reconstruction and investigative genetic genealogy linked the remains to family members and produced a positive identification as Leola Etta Bryant. The case was further re-examined after serial killer Samuel Little confessed to meeting a woman in a North Charleston nightclub, strangling her, and leaving her body beside Highway 52; those details align with Bryant’s disappearance and the location where the remains were found.

Did anyone who knew Leola or remembers the Midway Bar in 1974 ever come forward with information?