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Colleen Reed, 28, was abducted on December 29, 1991, from a self-service car wash in Austin, Texas. Witnesses heard her screams near the car wash, but when they arrived she was gone. Her white Mazda Miata was left in a stall, still covered in soap, with her purse and keys inside.

Investigators later linked the abduction and killing to Kenneth McDuff and an accomplice, Alva Hank Worley. Worley testified that McDuff knocked Reed unconscious, put her in the trunk and said he was going to use her up, and the two men drove her north on Interstate 35. Reed’s remains were recovered in a shallow grave near the Brazos River in Falls County in 1998 after McDuff led investigators to the site. McDuff was convicted of capital murder in her death and executed on November 16, 1998.

Reed worked as an accountant and accounts payable supervisor for the Lower Colorado River Authority. Her family spent nearly seven years seeking answers before her remains were found. Did anyone see Reed at the car wash that night or know more about her movements before the abduction?