Mary Leonard was 17 when she and her boyfriend, Ricky Beard, disappeared after a date at the Astro Drive-In in Cuyahoga Falls on August 24, 1979. They were seen afterward at a bowling alley and a neighbor heard them talking on the Leonard front steps; by the next morning both were missing. Ricky’s car was later found abandoned in an unused garage on West Portage Trail with bullet holes.

In 1985 a utility crew digging a trench on private property near Riverview Road discovered skeletal remains of both teenagers, still wearing the clothes from the night they vanished. Both had been shot and stabbed. Investigators have considered several theories over the years, including a crime of passion, possible involvement by local motorcycle gangs, and a speculative link to Edward Wayne Edwards, whom Edwards denied. An alleged confession by the landowner where the bodies were found was reportedly not fully pursued.

The Akron Police Department keeps the case open.