Enid Marie Branch, 21, was found shot multiple times in the face on a deserted dirt road in Hillsborough County, Florida, on August 21, 1976. A mother to a four-year-old son, Branch was enrolled in a Tampa trade school studying refrigerator repair and worked nights as a sex worker to support herself and her child.

Her killing was one of several Tampa Bay area homicides in the 1970s often linked to a possible serial offender referred to as the Gulf Killer; many victims in that series were women, and several were involved in sex work. In 1982 convicted serial killer Gerald Stano confessed to Branch’s murder but later recanted, saying his admissions were coerced. No one has been definitively arrested or convicted in her death, and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Enid, her routines, or the road where she was found ever see or hear anything that could help investigators?