Patricia Denise Palmer was 19 and newly married when she was murdered in Tulsa on November 17, 1981. She had placed an ad to sell her wedding dress and arranged to show it at her mother’s home at 4127 S. Sandusky Avenue. Between 11:30 a.m. and noon witnesses saw her on the front porch with a man who had responded to the ad.

Later that day Patricia was found in the house, apparently sexually assaulted and strangled, left in a bathtub with the water still running. The lone suspect was described as a white male, possibly in his mid-forties, about 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall and 180–190 pounds, with a red discoloration or birthmark on the left side of his face. He was seen driving a very clean black-over-dark-blue 1972–74 Chevrolet Impala, perhaps with a chrome dealer decal on the trunk and a CB or bent radio antenna.

No arrests have been reported and the case remains an open cold case with the Tulsa Police Department. If anyone remembers seeing that car or the man who came to see the dress, please come forward with information that could identify the killer.