Lee Ann Helms was 21 and a mother to a 10-month-old son when she was murdered in the autumn of 1977. Living and working in downtown Atlanta though originally from Griffin, she had met a man at a local club one evening. Her body, strangled, was later found by a Department of Transportation worker in woods near Union City at the intersection of Oakley Road and Oakley Industrial Boulevard.

The case produced few leads for decades: potential club witnesses died and investigators had little physical evidence, leaving the file cold. In 2018 convicted murderer Samuel Little gave a confession describing a woman he said he killed near Atlanta; his account matched Helms’s height, weight, job and infant son. He identified Helms from the only known adult photograph and confirmed he had killed her. After that corroboration the Fulton County Police Department closed Helms’s murder case.

Did anyone who knew Lee Ann Helms or who was in Atlanta clubs that autumn of 1977 see or hear anything that could add context to her last hours?