Debra Denise Terrell Mackey, a 20-year-old African-American woman from Lubbock, Texas, was reported missing on January 6, 1982 after last being seen five days earlier near the 1700 block of Avenue E. On February 16, 1982 a nude, headless, and badly decomposed woman with her hands bound behind her back was found in Hale County, about 45 miles from Lubbock. Fingerprints taken then produced no matches and the medical examiner initially misidentified the remains as Caucasian.

The head was later recovered near Scottsdale, Arizona but was incorrectly paired to the body. Henry Lee Lucas confessed in 1983; that confession was dismissed in 1986 as part of a pattern of false admissions. The remains were buried in Hale County as Jane Doe in 1993, exhumed in 2015, and on November 15, 2022 were positively identified as Debra Mackey through reexamination and genetic genealogy. No arrests or publicly named suspects have been announced; a $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest or identification of those responsible.

Are there readers who knew Debra or who have any leads about her movements in Lubbock in early January 1982?