Ursula Marie Miltenberger was 22 when she was abducted from Burke, Virginia on March 6, 1977. A recent Shepherd College computer science graduate working two jobs — as a bill collector in Alexandria and a management trainee at a McDonald’s in Lincolnia — she was last seen leaving the McDonald’s in the early morning hours. That same day a horseback rider found her battered, bound body in a Burke woods; she had been raped, beaten, and fatally stabbed.

Investigators linked fingerprints on Ursula’s car to Montie Ralph Rissell, then 18, through juvenile records on file with the Alexandria police. Fairfax and Alexandria detectives placed Rissell under surveillance; he was arrested, confessed to Ursula’s murder and implicated himself in the deaths of other women in the area. Rissell was convicted and given life in prison. Ursula’s killing became a notorious example of serial violence that shocked the region.

Does anyone who knew Ursula or who lived in Burke in 1977 have memories or information about her or that night?