Barbara Joan McDonald Moorman, 22, of Irving, Texas, was found dead near a roadside in Grapevine, Tarrant County, on February 9, 1971. She showed signs of strangulation and had a cut wound on the left side of her neck. At the time she worked as a nurse’s aide at St. Paul Hospital. She was married to Garry Lee Moorman and was the mother of a young daughter, Trisha Gail Moorman.

Barbara’s death remains unsolved with no arrests and no publicly identified suspects. Her case has been associated with a series of murders attributed to the McCrary family, a nomadic group tied to multiple killings and abductions in the early 1970s; her reported abduction from a grocery store in Irving is said to align with that group’s modus operandi, but no direct evidence has conclusively linked them to her murder. Barbara was buried at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.

Did anyone who knew Barbara, her family, or her routines in Irving or Grapevine have information that could help clarify what happened?