Susan Reynes, 26, disappeared from her Haworth, New Jersey, home on October 6, 1975. She was missing for about three weeks before remains were found in a wooded area in Rockland County, New York, late in October. An autopsy determined she had been strangled.

Eight days after Reynes’s disappearance, 22-year-old Susan Reeve of Demarest vanished; both women’s bodies were recovered around the same time and in similar locations, prompting investigators to consider a possible serial predator. Attention focused on Robert Reldan of Tenafly, who had a prior rape conviction and was arrested on an attempted burglary charge on October 31, 1975. He was later linked to multiple violent crimes against young women in northern New Jersey.

In 1979 Reldan was convicted for the murders of Susan Reynes and Susan Reeve and received life sentences. Did anyone in Haworth or the nearby communities have contact with Susan Reynes in the days before October 6, 1975?