James Anthony Shaw, known as Jim, was 41 when he left work at Whittlesea car rentals in Las Vegas on the night of May 4, 1971. He departed around 11:30 p.m. from the shop at Tropicana Boulevard and Paradise Road, bound for a home only a short distance away, but he never arrived.

Between midnight and 1:30 a.m. on May 5 a patrol officer found the beige Ford Galaxie Shaw had been driving abandoned in an alley west of Maryland Parkway, between Desert Inn Road and Sahara Boulevard. The area to the west was undeveloped desert in 1971. The car was bloodstained, yet Shaw himself vanished and has not been seen since. Foul play is suspected.

Investigators noted Shaw had argued with a business associate, Robert Weeks. Weeks was later linked to the disappearances of three other women and was convicted in two of those deaths; he was not charged in Shaw’s case and died in prison in 1996. Shaw, who had a noticeable limp from childhood polio, remains missing with no confirmed remains recovered.

Did anyone who knew Jim or worked at Whittlesea car rentals around 1971 have information about his movements that night?