Lloyd Pat Fitzgerald, 27, an electrician for the City of Burlington Electric and Light Department, disappeared after finishing a wiring job on Van Patten Parkway in Burlington on the evening of October 2, 1972. His Vega station wagon was found the next day parked in the Lakewood Estates area west of North Avenue, but Fitzgerald himself was missing.

On March 4, 1973, his body was found frozen in a remote cornfield near the Ethan Allen Homestead, about 104 feet from the Winooski River; he had been dragged by the feet to the location. An autopsy determined he died from gunshot wounds. Ballistics linked the .22 caliber revolver used to the August 1972 killing of Raymond Lestage, a case in which three men—Frank Berard Jr., Ray Rebideau, and Bernard Woodmansee—had been charged; those men were incarcerated at the time Fitzgerald was killed, and the firearm’s chain of custody was unclear.

No arrests have been made in Fitzgerald’s murder and the case remains unsolved. Did anyone in Burlington in 1972–1973 notice unusual activity around Lakewood Estates or the Ethan Allen Homestead area?