Denise Chance was 18 when she vanished from her home on Erter Drive in Springfield, Ohio, on January 7, 1985. The night before she had been with her brother and friends and spoke briefly with her mother, who expected Denise at a birthday celebration two days later. Early the next morning her roommate found her gone; shoes, purse, coat, and car keys were left behind and the garage door was slightly open. Snow on the ground showed no signs she had walked away.

On March 20, 1985, a man looking for aluminum cans discovered Denise’s body in a drainage ditch along Baldwin Lane. She had been strangled and her body was left under ice and snow. The case became a high-profile investigation for the Springfield Police and remains unsolved. If anyone knew Denise, saw anything around Erter Drive or Baldwin Lane in January through March 1985, or has information that could help her family, please come forward.