Delia Maria Adriano was 25 when she vanished on the night of September 26, 1982, just steps from her parents’ home on Wildwood Drive in Oakville, Ontario. She had been dropped off by her fiancé Danny Dutra at about 9:30 p.m. and was last seen walking toward the side entrance; she apparently never made it inside. About an hour later residents near Wildwood Drive and Slade Crescent reported hearing a woman scream and then saw a young woman matching Adriano’s description being forced into a dark two-door subcompact by a man. Witnesses described a struggle and an argument before the vehicle drove off with its headlights off; Adriano’s purse was found on the sidewalk the next morning.

Police developed a composite and a detailed description of the suspect: a white male about 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches, medium build, brown hair feathered back to his neck. The car was reported as a dark Chevrolet Chevette or similar two-door with three stripes along the side and Ontario licence plates; a similar vehicle was reportedly seen at a nearby model-home sales office that night.

Dutra was investigated and eliminated as a suspect. No arrest has been announced and Halton Regional Police list the case as an unsolved homicide. Does anyone remember that distinctive striped two-door subcompact or the man described near Wildwood Drive on the night of September 26, 1982?