Mary Ann Porter, a 31-year-old Black woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was reported missing in late October 1980. Her body was found on December 13, 1980, off the roadway in the 4600 block of West Wallen Road in northern Allen County. The case produced no viable suspects at the time and was classified as an unsolved homicide.

Decades later, in 2018, convicted serial killer Samuel Little gave investigators a detailed account saying he had picked up Porter near Maumee and Division Streets in Fort Wayne, strangled her in his vehicle, and disposed of her body in a rural area of Allen County. Allen County detectives interviewed Little in Texas, and his recollections led authorities to officially link him to Porter’s killing; the investigation was forwarded to the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office.

Anyone who knew Mary Ann Porter, her movements in 1980, or who has information about that area of Fort Wayne in late 1980 is asked to come forward.