Valeria Boyd was 18 when she was reported missing by her family in late October 1980 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her body was found in a field in rural Allen County on November 4, 1980. The case remained unsolved for decades.

In 2020 Samuel Little, already serving multiple life sentences, confessed to killing Valeria. He told investigators he picked up Valeria and another woman, 31-year-old Mary Ann Porter, in the same Fort Wayne area on the same night in late October 1980, then strangled both women in his vehicle and disposed of their bodies in separate locations. Detectives interviewed Little in Texas and forwarded his detailed statements to the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office; no further legal proceedings were pursued because Little was already imprisoned for life.

Are there readers who remember Valeria, Mary Ann Porter, or who have information about those last days in Fort Wayne?