In late summer 1971, 20-year-old Leeora Rose Looney was working a shift as a waitress at a donut shop in Lakewood, Colorado. On the evening of August 20 her purse was left open and her car remained parked outside; the register was open and about $100 was missing. Three days later her nude body was found in a remote field. Investigators determined she had been strangled, raped, and shot in the head.

Attention quickly turned to two men seen in the shop shortly before Looney vanished: Sherman R. McCrary and his son-in-law Carl Taylor. Their arrest revealed a transient family pattern of crime across states and linked them to a string of violent attacks on young women working in donut shops. Taylor’s fingerprints were tied to a separate abduction, and McCrary later confessed to other killings. McCrary was convicted of Looney’s kidnapping and first-degree murder and received a life sentence.

Does anyone have additional details about Leeora’s last shift, the two suspects’ movements that day, or witnesses who saw them in the shop?