On January 10, 1987, 39-year-old nurse Barbara Agnew was driving home to Norwich, Vermont, after skiing at Stratton Mountain when her green BMW was found abandoned at a rest area in White River Junction. The car door was slightly ajar, there were bloodstains on the steering wheel, and some of her personal items, covered in blood, were recovered from a nearby dumpster — signs that a struggle had occurred. She was familiar with winter driving and her family and friends were puzzled why she would stop at a deserted rest area so close to home.

A search that began after the car’s discovery ended on March 28, 1987, when Agnew’s body was found in woods in Hartland near an apple tree; she was still wearing her ski bib with the lift ticket attached. An autopsy determined she died of multiple stab wounds to the neck and a traumatic head injury. Investigators have considered a possible connection to other unsolved Connecticut River Valley killings, but no arrests have been made.

A later deathbed confession from a New Hampshire man named Gary Westover implicated several friends and named three men, including Michael Nicholaou, but that lead has not produced charges. The case remains open and unsolved. Does anyone have information about Agnew’s movements that night or about the people Westover named?