Suzanne Searle was a 25-year-old white woman from Des Moines, Iowa, who had recently moved to Houston in early 1982. She was reported missing after attending an all-night party on April 5, 1982. Although she seemed to have returned home, she never went into her apartment; her car was found parked outside with her shoes and broken glasses inside, suggesting a sudden and possibly violent encounter. Friends offered a $5,000 reward for information about her disappearance.

Her body was found on April 21, 1982. Police records and confessions obtained later indicate Suzanne was strangled, held underwater, and then buried. Her killing matched a pattern of attacks on women in Houston at the time. Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed in 1982 to killing or attacking multiple women, led police to Suzanne’s grave after his confession, linking him to her murder and providing closure to her disappearance.

Did anyone in Houston at the time know Suzanne’s routines, the party she attended, or have information about that April 1982 weekend?