On November 20, 1977, 31-year-old William Adams Jr was found dead in the master bedroom of his Fallston, Pennsylvania home, killed by a shotgun blast to the chest. His two young children, ages 4 and 7, discovered the body and, unable to find their mother Nancy, aged 29, called their grandmother. Nancy Adams disappeared that night and has never been found.

The case went cold for decades. In 2018 Pennsylvania State Police began communicating with Edward A. Surratt, a former long-haul trucker and already-incarcerated suspect. In March 2021 investigators traveled to Raiford Correctional Facility in Florida and Surratt, then 71, confessed to killing both William and Nancy Adams, saying his pattern was to kill the husband and then either assault and kill or abduct the wife. Because Surratt was serving multiple life sentences, Pennsylvania prosecutors opted not to bring new charges, and the confession closed the investigation.

Does anyone have memories of the Adams family or information about Fallston in 1977 that could add context to what happened that night?