Kathy Nicastro Luongo was 28 when she was last seen alive in Warwick, Rhode Island, after an argument with her husband, David, late on May 18, 1984. She missed two appointments the next day, and her blue 1976 Toyota Celica with LUONGO plates was reportedly seen being driven by a large man on Post Road that evening. On May 20, 1984, at 12:22 pm, the locked car was found behind Warwick City Hall; Kathy’s body was in the back seat and her keys were on the floor.

An autopsy determined she had been manually strangled; her death was initially thought to be an overdose but was reclassified after the autopsy. Detectives focused on her husband David, who said he had been searching for her, while a neighbor later said David’s car had been parked outside his house the entire day Kathy was missing. David was never arrested and no other suspects have been publicly named.

After decades cold, two amateur investigators with a family connection created a Facebook page, conducted interviews, and generated renewed interest that prompted the Rhode Island Attorney General’s new cold case unit to reopen the evidence. The case remains officially unsolved.

Does anyone have information about Kathy’s activities the night of May 18 or about the man seen driving her car on Post Road?