Faith Hathaway was 18 when she was attacked after accepting a ride outside the Lakefront Theatre in Mandeville, Louisiana, in the early hours of May 28, 1980. Prosecutors say the two men who gave her the ride, Robert Lee Willie and Joseph Vaccaro, drove her north into Washington Parish to a secluded gorge known as Fricke’s Cave, where she was held, sexually assaulted by one or both men, and repeatedly stabbed in the throat while the other restrained her. Her clothing and purse were found about 150 yards from where her remains were discovered on June 4, 1980; a small printed note reading you never find her was recovered nearby but could not be tied definitively to either suspect or to the crime scene. Willie and Vaccaro were arrested in Hope, Arkansas, on June 3, 1980, for unrelated violent crimes and on June 10 admitted to seizing Hathaway while each blamed the other for the rape and the killing. Willie was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death; Vaccaro testified against him and received life in prison for Hathaway’s killing.

Did anyone in the area at that time see a car or men leaving the Lakefront Theatre in the early morning hours of May 28, 1980?