Barbara Jean Hagy, 48, was found dead on April 16, 1989, in the Pugh Mountain area of Smyth County, Virginia. Her nude body lay in the road at the entrance to a sand quarry; her head and neck were covered in sand. Cause of death was recorded as asphyxia due to blunt force trauma to the head, face, and neck, and the Virginia State Police classified the death as a homicide.

Investigators focused on Michael McGay Reeves, a Smyth County native with a violent criminal history. A Job Corps student who reported being raped the night after Hagy’s body was found later testified in a separate trial that the car driven by her attacker belonged to Hagy, linking Reeves to the murder. Reeves was charged with first-degree murder in Virginia in 1993, but the case never went to trial because officials arranged not to return him from North Carolina, where he had been sentenced to death in an unrelated February 6, 1989 killing.

Does anyone have information about Hagy, her last movements, or the vehicle reportedly linked to the case?