In January 1974, 23-year-old white female Ginger Rader was kidnapped in Onslow County, North Carolina. Police reports say she was allegedly forced to assist in a bank robbery and was then fatally shot. Her death was one of several violent crimes in the region that year later linked to a single suspect.

Authorities identified Marcus Shrader, a Navy corpsman stationed at Camp Lejeune, as the primary suspect in Rader’s murder. Shrader was publicly named as responsible but was never formally tried for Ginger Rader’s killing. He was arrested on August 18, 1974, after being recognized from a wanted poster and was convicted for the murder of Cheryl Potter Boyd; his death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Shrader died in prison in 2007 of natural causes.

Does anyone have details about the circumstances of Rader’s abduction or the investigation in Onslow County that could shed more light on this case?