On April 10, 1987, 12-year-old Kathy Allen was abducted from her family home in Ottumwa, Iowa, after two men who had earlier come to the house claiming to want to buy the family truck returned and forced their way inside. Kathy was taken and the next day her body was found in a ditch in a rural area of Schuyler County, Missouri; an autopsy determined she died from a stab wound to the neck.

Andrew Wessel Six and his uncle Donald Eugene Petary were captured in Texas the day after the kidnapping. Both men were charged with federal kidnapping and murder, convicted, and sentenced to death; they also received 200-year federal prison terms for the kidnapping convictions. Andrew Wessel Six was executed by lethal injection on August 20, 1997; Donald Eugene Petary died on death row in 1998.

Are there details about Kathy’s final movements that anyone from Ottumwa or Schuyler County remembers and can share?