Rita L. Rinehart, 32, vanished from her Kansas City home at 1600 NE Russell Road on or about April 18, 1980. A mother described as sociable and known on CB radio as Wild Woman, Rita was in the middle of legal proceedings against her husband and had told others she was extremely afraid of him after an incident in which he reportedly held a gun to her head. She drove off that day and neither she nor her vehicle were seen for weeks.

Her green and gold 1972 Chevrolet pickup was found on May 19, 1980, at the 707 truck stop off I-70 and Highway 7 in Blue Springs. The truck had apparently been towed there and left since at least early May; its transmission line had been cut. Inside were a woman’s purse, a shovel, a rope, and a serrated knife. Rita was five feet nine inches tall, about 200 to 220 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, a crippled right hand, and a shoulder scar.

What information might help explain where Rita went or who had access to her truck in April and May 1980?