Lyla Poitras was 27 when she disappeared from her home on Cynthia Avenue in Tiverton, Rhode Island, in late June 1977. Friends said she was outgoing and an animal lover. The last known sighting was her boyfriend leaving her house after they watched a Red Sox game around midnight on June 27. A neighbor reported the television on in Lyla’s bedroom and her car unmoved, prompting a missing person report on June 29.

On July 13 state transportation workers cutting grass along William Canning Boulevard, about three miles from her house, found Lyla’s body in woods near Stafford Road. She was fully clothed; an autopsy determined death from a single small-caliber gunshot to the right side of the head. Investigators found no signs of physical or sexual assault and believed she had been killed elsewhere and her body moved to the site. The Tiverton Police, Rhode Island State Police, and the FBI interviewed more than 100 people; the boyfriend was cleared. Police have named a person of interest but no arrests have been announced, and the murder remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the area know Lyla or remember seeing her in late June 1977?