Ten-year-old James Riley Woolum went missing from his Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood after getting his father’s permission to search a nearby dump for empty soda bottles. His parents reported him missing on March 21, 1974. A classmate last saw James walking northbound near 6300 N. Cincinnati Avenue. The FBI joined the search within three days; volunteers and two airplanes were used but initial efforts failed to find him.

James’s body was found on March 29, 1974, in a wooded area near 2400 W. 73rd Street, about twelve miles from his home. An autopsy determined he had been manually strangled. In October 1975 a 30-year-old Tulsa man was identified as a prime suspect and was to be extradited from Washington state for questioning, but he was never publicly charged and it is not known whether he was cleared. The case remains unsolved.

Does anyone have information about James’s last known movements or the 1975 suspect that could help this cold case?