In late May 1987 the disappearance of 23-year-old Ivy Susanna Williams became one of several young-woman cases that unsettled El Paso. Williams was last seen on May 30, 1987; her disappearance was not reported at the time. On March 14, 1988 a couple collecting aluminum cans found her partially buried remains in a shallow grave northeast of El Paso in the same desert area where other victims were recovered. An autopsy found she had suffered multiple stab wounds.

Investigators eventually linked these killings to David Leonard Wood, who was arrested in October 1987 on unrelated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping charges. A 1990 grand jury indicted Wood for the murders of Williams and five other women. His 1992 trial in Dallas resulted in a guilty verdict for the capital murder of Ivy Susanna Williams; he was sentenced to death four days later. The prosecution relied largely on witness testimony, including a surviving victim’s account and testimony from former cellmates who said Wood confessed.

Does anyone have information about Williams’ last known movements or anyone who might have seen her in late May 1987?