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Anna Marie Patterson, 27, of Findlay, Ohio, was found beaten to death along Interstate 71 in February 1987. She had been arrested for criminal trespassing at a truck stop in Austintown on February 7, 1987, and told an officer she feared she would be killed if she disclosed information about a series of murders involving prostitutes who frequented Youngstown-area truck stops. She disappeared the next day and her body was recovered about a week later.

Authorities suspected Patterson’s death was connected to a string of killings of women found near Interstate 71 between 1985 and 1986, including Marcia Matthews, 25, Shirley Taylor, 22, and April Barnett, 18. Investigators considered the possibility of a truck driver using citizen band radio to lure victims and reported rumors of aliases such as Dr. No, Stargazer, and Dragon, but no forensic evidence definitively linked the cases and no arrests had been announced.

Are there details anyone remembers about those truck stops, the CB radio chatter, or the women who frequented that route that could help investigators?