On the early morning of July 26, 1973, 38-year-old mother of four Veda Woodson was driving to Sperry, Oklahoma, after a janitorial shift at the First National Bank in Tulsa. She was believed to have stopped to buy a soft drink for a sick son and never made it home. Her 1958 Chevrolet was found about 2:00 AM at 8800 N. Cincinnati with the lights on and the driver’s door open. Her family searched when she didn’t return; her body was later discovered in a nearby field.

Investigators concluded Woodson had been abducted, sexually assaulted, and strangled. Evidence was collected at the scene but could not identify a suspect with 1973 technology. In 2018 the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Task Force announced DNA evidence linked a suspect to the murder, identifying Stanley Clabough, who had been a person of interest in the original investigation; investigators said he had discussed the killing with people in his inner circle and they believed he was in the Tulsa area.

Did anyone in Sperry or Tulsa remember seeing Veda that night or know more about the people she might have encountered?