Eighteen-year-old Andy Joe Lepley vanished from the Texaco at I-25 and Highway 165 in Crow Junction, Pueblo County, in the early morning of Memorial Day weekend, 1976. He opened the station between 6:15 and 6:30 AM, delivered a newspaper to the adjoining restaurant and was last seen standing under the pump canopy at about 6:45 AM. When customers arrived shortly after, the station was unattended; Andy’s 1967 pickup remained in the lot with the keys in the ignition.

The scene suggested a sudden interruption: the CB radio microphone had been forcibly ripped out and the cash register was empty, with about $50 to $100 missing. Two restaurant waitresses later, under hypnosis, described a middle-aged white man seen leaving around 7:00 AM in a flashy late-model two-door car, possibly a silver or white Pontiac Grand Prix with maroon trim, towing a small handmade plywood trailer.

A massive search involved volunteers, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. Years later retired FBI agents identified a local college professor as a person of interest after links to other disappearances and deaths; the professor later died by suicide. Andy was a Rye High School senior days from graduation, an honor student and athlete, and planned to work for his father before enlisting. Does anyone who lived in the area in 1976 remember that description of the car or the man near the Texaco?