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Elizabeth Miles Curtis Ehlers, known as Lisa, was 25 when she was found shot to death on June 21, 1984 at a highway turnout near the Hoback River on U.S. 191, just north of Bondurant, Wyoming. She suffered at least two fatal gunshot wounds, to the chest and head, and a wound to her right hand. Her car was left in park with the engine running; personal items and money remained inside. Reports said she had been preparing to travel to Florida to join her husband.

The case went cold for decades. In 1988 Paul Ezra Rhoades was publicly suggested as a possible suspect after investigators placed him in the region, but no evidence tied him to the killing and he was never charged. On March 1, 2009, authorities arrested 45-year-old Troy Dean Willoughby in Helena, Montana, charging him with first-degree murder; he was extradited to Sublette County. A January 2010 jury convicted Willoughby and he was sentenced to life; the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed in June 2011. Later in 2011 prosecutors disclosed previously undisclosed 1984 reports and a district judge granted a new trial. At the retrial in February 2012 a Fremont County jury acquitted Willoughby. The killing of Elizabeth Ehlers near Bondurant remains officially unsolved.

If anyone knew Elizabeth, saw her driving near Bondurant in June 1984, or has information about that turnout, please share what is known.