Thirteen-year-old Julia Miller vanished from Picher, Oklahoma, in June 1977 after walking to a local convenience store to buy ice cream. The community searched for months, and in April 1978 her remains were found in a remote area of Treece, Kansas; her body had been bound to a tree.

Investigators later focused on Karl Lee Myers, who had been living with Julia’s mother when she disappeared. Myers was treated as a person of interest but was never charged in Julia’s murder. He was convicted in 1979 of sexual assault in Ottawa County and served six years, and was later convicted in March 1998 of two Tulsa-area murders; he died in prison in 2012. No one has been charged in Julia Miller’s killing.

Did anyone in Picher or Treece in 1977–78 have memories or information that could help clarify what happened to Julia?