On May 17, 1982, 18-year-old Blanca Isela Arreola Guerrero disappeared in Odessa, Texas. She was three and a half months pregnant and had recently married. That morning she left home to drive her sister-in-law to work and expected to return shortly; her husband Joe Guerrero reported her missing when she did not come back.

The car Blanca had been driving was later found abandoned behind an Albertson’s on 7th Street with its emergency lights flashing and out of gas. Witnesses said a young Hispanic female matching her description went into the store to use the phone, and a clerk recalled seeing her get into a blue pickup truck driven by a white male; the interaction did not appear forced. Despite a missing persons report filed May 20, 1982, no trace of her was found for months.

Her remains were discovered December 30, 1982. Investigators later linked her death to other violent crimes in the region and identified Michael Eugene Sharp of Eastland, Texas, as the primary suspect in those killings. Blanca and her unborn child were confirmed among his victims. Does anyone have memories of Blanca, the car left at the Albertson’s, or the blue pickup that could add detail to her last known movements?