Elizabeth Josephine Betty Jo Steffens Perryman, 26, disappeared in September 1971 after finishing a night shift at the Toddle House coffee shop in Lubbock. Married to taxi driver Van Perryman and mother of two, she called the taxi company and her husband came to pick her up; the restaurant was locked and she was gone. A newborn daughter, Regina, had been born just weeks earlier.

Skeletal remains later identified by dental records were found in a field about eight miles west of Amarillo. Investigators linked her killing to a string of similar abductions and murders across Texas, Colorado and Utah carried out by the McCrary-Taylor family, led by Sherman McCrary and son-in-law Carl Taylor. Both men confessed to Elizabeth’s murder after their June 1972 arrest for a failed robbery; they were convicted in at least one related murder and received life terms. Other family members faced lesser convictions.

Elizabeth’s case was closed without a formal resolution and her family wasn’t officially notified of the confessions. Did anyone in Lubbock or Amarillo remember reports from 1971–1972 that might add details about her last night or the discovery of the remains?