Cheryl Potter Boyd, 19, was kidnapped and murdered in August 1974 in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She was taken from the parking lot of the post office on New Bridge Street while getting into her car; a man entered from the passenger side and forced her to help rob a nearby bank. During the robbery he wore a green ski mask, a disguise already linked to other crimes and one that may have helped Cheryl recognize him. After the robbery she was shot in the face and her body left in her car behind the New River Shopping Center.

Two days later police arrested Marcus B. Shrader III, a Navy medical corpsman stationed at Camp Lejeune, after a fellow corpsman identified him from a wanted poster by the freckles around his eyes. Shrader was taken into custody at his Cedar Point home, convicted later in 1974 of kidnapping and murdering Cheryl Potter Boyd, and sentenced to death. He was also suspected in the killings of Karen Amabile, Cindy Howard, and Ginger Rader but was never tried for those cases.

Does anyone have memories or information about Cheryl, the New Bridge Street area in 1974, or the investigation that could shed more light on this case?