Sandy Little, 21, disappeared from the St. Louis, Missouri, area on September 4, 1990, at a time the city was already alarmed by multiple disappearances and grisly finds. Months later, in February 1991, a highway worker on Interstate 70 near O’Fallon found an abandoned dresser on the shoulder; Little’s body was discovered concealed inside.

The manner of disposal—hiding a body in furniture left by the road—became part of a pattern linked to a perpetrator nicknamed the Package Killer, whose victims had been left in containers such as boxes, mattresses and makeshift packages. Decades passed with the case cold until forensic DNA testing and reexamination of evidence connected Gary Muehlberg, then serving a life sentence for an unrelated 1993 murder, to Little’s death; authorities said he admitted responsibility for multiple killings. Prosecutors charged Muehlberg in September 2022 and he later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Little’s death.

Does anyone have information about Little’s last known movements or contacts in early September 1990?