Cathy Lee Scharf, 17, was reported missing from Port Orange on December 16, 1973, after last being seen hitchhiking. Her decomposed body was found by hunters on January 19, 1974, in a ditch in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville. Investigators concluded she had been stabbed and strangled and had been dead for several weeks when discovered.

In the early 1980s Gerald Eugene Stano, also known as Paul Zeininger, confessed in custody to killing Cathy and provided details not publicly released, which investigators found credible. Stano later was convicted of multiple murders and executed in 1998; authorities linked him to numerous other female victims, many of whom had been hitchhiking.

Does anyone have memories of Cathy, her life in Port Orange, or information about her disappearance in December 1973?