Betty Gholston, also identified once as Alice Gholston, was 44 when she was killed inside her Moulton, Alabama, home on November 25, 1996. Police described her death as a bludgeoning discovered by her brother and her former husband after they forced their way into the house. Investigators treated the case as a home-invasion killing; reports do not name a clear motive or say whether anything was taken.

The case stayed cold for years but did not disappear from the family’s radar. Betty’s brother, Clyde Pruitt, publicly urged authorities to reopen the investigation and said he wanted to know who killed her before he died. In 2008 Moulton Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter organized a multi-agency review, and a $5,000 reward from the governor’s office was listed for information. No suspect has been publicly named and the killing appears unresolved.

If anyone knew Betty, her routines, or heard anything about a November 1996 break-in in Moulton, please come forward with information to the Moulton Police Department.