On the night of September 26, 1980, 19-year-old Diane Edwards was abducted while walking home from her waitressing shift at a Perkins Restaurant in West St. Paul, Minnesota. Multiple witnesses, including four teenage girls and a woman parked nearby, reported a dark-colored station wagon with wood-grain panels pulling onto the sidewalk; a man described as in his mid-20s with brown hair and an unshaven face lifted Edwards over his head and shoved her into the vehicle through the driver’s door. Minutes earlier, a nearby woman, Tomi Willems, had been rear-ended by a similar vehicle and pursued before the driver fled when she honked for help.

On October 9, 1980, a hunter found Edwards’ purse on a rural Sherburne County road; her naked body was located face down in a ditch nearby with her clothing piled beside her and her glasses recovered. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner ruled cause of death as blood loss from multiple stab wounds to the chest by a single-bladed knife with a six-inch blade. Examiners also noted facial bruises, a shoulder bruise, rope-like marks on her arms, and traces of sperm, though decomposition prevented conclusive blood-typing.

Investigators later connected the case to Joseph Donald Ture Jr.

Did anyone in the West St. Paul area at the time recognize the vehicle or the description of the abductor?