Judy Martins was a 22-year-old junior at Kent State University when she disappeared on the night of May 24, 1978. A dedicated art major with a minor in women’s studies, she served as a resident assistant in Engleman Hall and volunteered as a counselor at the campus Pregnancy Information Center. Around 2:00–2:30 a.m. she left a friend’s room in Dunbar Hall to walk the roughly 300 yards back to her single room in Engleman Hall and never arrived.

Nearly all of Judy’s personal effects were found in her room — eyeglasses, makeup, clothing, and money — items her family said she always took with her. Missing were her purse (with one unused credit card), the clothes she was wearing that night, and the red wig she’d been wearing while celebrating the end of the semester. Initial campus police treated the case as a voluntary runaway; her family rejected that view. Leads over the years included a mistaken sighting in Cleveland, an identity mix-up involving Mexico, and a person of interest, William John Posey Jr., who was never charged. The original university police case files were later destroyed and the disappearance remains an open investigation.

Did anyone on campus that Memorial Day weekend or who lived nearby at the time recall seeing Judy or the red wig she was wearing?