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Margaret Holmes Gardner, 47, was found dead on July 11, 2003, near an entrance ramp to Interstate 40 in Crittenden County, Arkansas. A postal worker discovered her body in West Memphis; Arkansas State Police and the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office determined she died of blunt force trauma.

In the days before her death Gardner was last seen at the Flying J truck stop in West Memphis. Known on CB radio by the handle Vanilla, she was part of the transient truck-stop community. Investigators later linked her killing to a pattern of similar homicides along the I-40 corridor and a multistate task force was formed to examine possible connections between the victims.

A truck driver named John Robert Williams was identified as a suspect and confessed to other murders, but no one has been definitively charged or arrested in Gardner’s death. What details about Gardner’s movements around West Memphis or the Flying J truck stop could help bring new leads? Please share any information.