On December 13, 1974, 19-year-old Diane Lynn Lovette was traveling on Interstate 70 near Ogallah, Kansas, with 21-year-old Cheryl Young and Cheryl’s three-year-old son, Guy William Young. Their car was deliberately disabled when a man later identified as Francis Donald Nemechek shot out a tire. Nemechek then forced the three into his vehicle and drove them to an abandoned farmhouse in Graham County.

At that isolated location both women were killed by shotgun wounds; the child, Guy Young, was left at the scene and died from exposure. Their bodies were not found until January 13, 1975. Investigators did not make a substantial break in the case until Nemechek’s arrest on August 24, 1976, in connection with other crimes. He later confessed to these murders and was convicted by a jury of five counts of first-degree murder; the jury rejected an insanity defense and he received life sentences.

Does anyone have memories of the Ogallah area in late 1974 or information about the abandoned farmhouse or the victims’ final movements?