Frances Campbell was a 23-year-old Black woman from Savannah, Georgia whose disappearance and death haunted her family for decades. Her remains were found in 1985 on a pile of construction debris along an interstate highway; identity of her killer remained unknown and the case went cold.

In 2019 investigators reopened the file after Samuel Little, then serving multiple life sentences, began confessing to numerous murders. He identified Frances from a photograph and admitted strangling her and leaving her on construction debris, providing details that matched the 1985 scene. In December 2019 a Savannah grand jury indicted Samuel Little for Frances Campbell’s murder.

Her family said the identification brought painful answers but also a measure of closure. Did anyone who knew Frances in Savannah in the early 1980s notice people or vehicles connected to her movements in the weeks before she disappeared?