Sharla Spangler, 24, was found shot to death on January 30, 1985, under a semi-trailer in a parking lot at the corner of Dublin Granville Road and Hamilton Road in Columbus, Ohio. She had last been seen leaving the Gold Fox Lounge in Gahanna, where she worked as an exotic dancer; her car was later discovered running in the lounge parking lot with her purse inside, circumstances that pointed to foul play.

The case remained cold for more than three decades until July 2015, when Douglas Krumlauf was arrested in Knox County on an unrelated charge and his fingerprints were entered into a law enforcement database. Those prints matched evidence from Spangler’s murder scene. Columbus Police Cold Case detectives and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, with assistance from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, built a case that led to a grand jury indictment for aggravated murder by 2017 and Krumlauf’s arrest while receiving treatment at a Columbus hospital. The renewed investigation and subsequent charges followed many years without resolution, and the case has experienced multiple trial delays.

If anyone knew Sharla, worked near the Gold Fox Lounge, or has information about that January 1985 night, please come forward with what was seen or remembered.