Myrlene Teepee Hamer, a 43-year-old Native American woman, died on August 7, 1975, near Casper, Wyoming. According to later accounts, Carroll Edward Eddie Cole met Hamer at a local bar while working in the area, spent hours drinking with her, and then the two left together. Cole later admitted he strangled Hamer inside a vehicle, drove her body to an isolated grassy hillside or field outside Casper, and covered her with an old sleeping bag.

Her remains were found by police on August 9 and she was buried at Highland Cemetery in Casper on August 12, 1975. Cole was not identified or arrested in Wyoming at the time; the link between him and Hamer’s death emerged years later after his arrest in Dallas in November 1980 and subsequent confessions. Records show he was not tried or convicted in Wyoming for Hamer’s murder, and her death is attributed to him primarily through his own admission.

Did anyone in Casper know Hamer or see her the night she disappeared?