Linda Lou Taylor, 23, disappeared from Reno, Nevada, in early March 1979 after moving to the city from Minnesota the previous fall. On March 7 she met a man at a bank who said he was a self-employed locksmith; they planned lunch. She was later seen buying shoes, receipts show groceries purchased March 8, and there is an unconfirmed sighting at her apartment complex on March 9. She then vanished.

Her station wagon was found abandoned March 18 about 23 miles from her last known location with her workout clothes inside, and her family and investigators treated the case as a suspected homicide. Her body has never been recovered. A tip led police to question Charles Gary Sullivan, who admitted to a date with her, then quit his job, shaved his beard, and left Nevada; he later was arrested in Arizona in a separate 1979 Reno murder after DNA linked him to that case. Authorities have named Sullivan as a suspect in Taylor’s disappearance but he has not been charged in her case.

Was anyone in Reno in March 1979 familiar with Linda, the man who called himself a locksmith, or the station wagon found off the highway?