Elizabeth Gale Tucker was a 17-year-old hitchhiker who was murdered on May 1, 1985, in a wooded area near Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Her body was not found until October 6, 1985, when a hunter and his dog discovered her on a logging road near Grosses Coques. At the time of the discovery, authorities questioned a Toronto man named Gregory George Ashford, but no charges were immediately filed.

Years later Canadian serial killer Michael Wayne McGray was linked to Tucker’s murder. McGray, born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Argyle, Nova Scotia, was convicted of seven murders and claimed as many as 11 additional killings between 1985 and 1998. His confession about Tucker came while he was attempting to negotiate better prison conditions; he provided details and made demands including psychiatric treatment and immunity for two alleged accomplices, one described as a girlfriend he would not identify. The full extent of McGray’s involvement in Tucker’s death remains unclear.

If anyone knew Elizabeth, saw her in the Weymouth area in spring 1985, or has information about how she came to be on that logging road, please share what is known.