Jeffrey Lee Foster, a 14-year-old white male from Forsyth County, North Carolina, was murdered in July 1976 after being picked up while hitchhiking near Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem. According to later accounts, the man who picked him up drove to a dead-end road, dragged Jeffrey into the back seat, pulled down his pants and paddled him, then drove on until finding a spot where he forced Jeffrey out, laid him on his stomach and stabbed him to death.

Investigators suspected George Kent Wallace at the time but did not have enough physical evidence to prosecute. Wallace had a documented pattern of luring young male victims under false pretenses, impersonating police officers and assaulting minors through the late 1970s and early 1980s. Years later, during a death row interview in Oklahoma, Wallace confessed to Jeffrey’s murder and to another killing in 1982; he was never formally tried in North Carolina for Foster’s death because of the earlier lack of prosecutable evidence.

Does anyone have information about Jeffrey’s last movements near Hanes Mall in July 1976 or recall relevant details that could still help the case?