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Stephanie Gach was a 21-year-old college student who disappeared after an evening trip to Eastwood Mall in Birmingham, Alabama. On October 9, 1992, she drove back to her apartment; as she walked from her car a man in a white Toyota van pulled up, and witnesses say he forced her into the vehicle at gunpoint. Her mother reported her missing the next day when she did not return, and a friend found Stephanie’s eyeglasses near her usual parking spot.

Her partially clothed body was later found on the side of Grants Mill Road. An autopsy determined she had been bludgeoned with a hammer, strangled, and fatally stabbed in the chest. Investigation linked the crime to Jack Harrison Trawick; fibers from Stephanie’s sweater matched carpeting in his van, and duct tape used on her was tied to him. Trawick confessed during questioning on October 29, 1992, was charged with capital murder, convicted in 1994 and sentenced to death. He was also convicted in 1995 in the murder of Aileen Pruitt and was suspected in other killings.

Does anyone have information about Stephanie’s last known movements at Eastwood Mall or who else might have seen her that evening?